In Honor of NASA Mars Probe “InSight” – An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #46 – Mariner 4

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mariner 4’s primary objective was to conduct closeup scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Additional goals included performing field and particle measurements in interplanetary space, and providing experience and knowledge of engineering capabilities for interplanetary … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
0:12.2	Godspeed, John Glenn.
0:15.1	Roger, zero G, and I feel fine.
0:18.2	I feel the liftoff.
0:20.4	The clock has started.
0:22.6	Roger.
0:23.6	This is a new and strange environment first.
0:26.6	It's suddenly finding yourself in orbit.
0:28.6	We have a lift-off.
0:30.6	32 minutes past the hour.
0:32.6	Lift-off on Apollo 11.
0:34.6	Glisten, Tang tranquility base here.
0:37.9	The Eagle has landed.
0:43.9	Hello and welcome.
0:45.3	This is Michael Annes, and you're listening to episode 46 of the Space Rocket History
0:49.8	podcast.
0:51.0	And now, Mariner 4.
0:54.5	It's difficult to determine exactly when the discussions of life on Mars began in earnest,
1:01.8	but astronomers' observations of the red planet in the late 1800s and early 1900s
1:08.2	helped spur a wave of interest.
1:11.6	Percival Lowell, an American businessman, spent years studying Mars from an observatory he financed at Flagstaff, Arizona.
1:21.6	While there, he made sketches of the surface of Mars and published the results.
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