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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE 2l3-354-50ll
NOTE TO EDITORS: AUGUST
7, l975
Two Viking spacecraft wil1 be launched to Mars from
Cape
Canaveral this month in the United States' first attempt to
land on
another planet. The Viking Project is managed by the NASA
Langley
Research Center, Hampton, Virginia.
Viking launch activities can be monitored at the
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, per the following schedule:
The West Coast Viking News Center will open at lO
a.m. Saturday,
August 9, in JPL's von Karman Auditorium, 48OO Oak Grove
Drive, Pasadena.
An audio line from Cape Canaveral will carry the pre-launch
Viking science
briefing, beginning at lO:3O a.m.
The JPL news center wil1 re-open at 1 p.m. Monday,
August 11.
Launch of the first of two Viking spacecraft to Mars is
scheduled for
1:59 p.m. Countdown commentary from the launch site will
begin at
l:20 p.m. One hour of color video of the launch operations
also will
begin at 1:2O p.m. Post-launch briefihg from the Cape will
begin at
3:3O p.m. (audio only). Mission operations following launch
will î
originate in the Viking control center at JPL and commentary
wi11 be
available in the news center until about 7 p.m.
The second Viking launch is scheduled for August
21. Details
will be available August 18.
For further information, p1ease call the JPL Public
Information
Office, telephone 354-5Oll.
Frank Colella
Public Information
Office
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