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Voyager Data Management Handbook

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.2022.0008
Creators:
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Lab
Dates:
August 1967
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.05 Cubic feet
One legal folder.
Repository:
This is the NASA Voyager Data Management Handbook, August 1967, that was produced for the use of all activities supporting the Voyager Project.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This is the NASA Voyager Data Management Handbook, August 1967, that was produced for the use of all activities supporting the Voyager Project.

Arrangement

Arrangement
Just one item.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
The Voyager Project was a 1960s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) proposal for a robotic spacecraft program to explore Mars and Venus. Managed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, the project was formally approved by NASA Headquarters in 1964, but delays caused by cuts to NASA's science budget, debate over how Voyager should be managed and launched, and new Mars atmosphere data gathered by the July 1965 Mariner IV flyby, pushed back NASA's formal Voyager start-up until January 1967. Congress, however, refused to fund Voyager as it was seen as too costly and because of undermined confidence in NASA caused by the recent Apollo 1 fire. NASA formally abandoned the project in September 1967.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
Richard J. Plocica, Gift, 2021, NASM.2022.0008
Processing Information
Arranged, described, and encoded by Patti Williams, 2022.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Preferred Citation
Voyager Data Management Handbook
NASM.2022.0008, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Keywords

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