Mars Odyssey spacecraft reaches orbit after successful engine burn
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey probe successfully achieved orbit around the Red Planet Tuesday evening, marking the space agency's first success at Mars since the back-to-back losses of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander in 1999. At an Oct. 23 press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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