Lockheed launches year with 2 missions
January 2, 2004
Lockheed launches year with 2 missions
From The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, The Denver Post and New York Times reports
Friday, January 2, 2004
Lockheed Martin Space Systems starts the new year with two high- profile NASA missions in succession today and Saturday. First comes the Stardust spacecraft, which was launched five years ago. It is expected to fly by a comet 242 million miles from Earth today to gather tiny fragments for scientific study. On Saturday, a golf- cart-sized rover named Spirit, launched in June, is expected to land on Mars.