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• There is currently one lander in operation on Mars (InSight), along with three rovers (Curiosity, Perseverance, and China’s Zhurong) and 8 orbiting satellites. It was a long hard road to get here, with the Soviets having a particularly hard time. The long list of failures became known as the Mars Curse. • Between 1960 and 1962, the Soviets launched 5 missions to Mars, and all failed. One of the most heartbreaking was the Mars 1, which sailed towards Mars for five months, making it 65.9 million miles before its radio failed and communication permanently ceased. • In 1964, NASA gave it a try with Mariner 3 but that also failed shortly after launch when the solar panels failed to function properly and the batteries died as the ground crew was frantically trying to fix the problem. • Three weeks later, the launch of NASA’s Mariner 4 became the first successful mission to Mars, a flyby that took the first close up images of the planet, sending back 22 images which showed the atmosphere was much thinTurn the page for more! ner than expected.

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• In 1969, NASA sent two more successful Mariner missions. The 200 pictures they sent back to Earth covered 20% of the planet. Photos did not reveal any canals, but did show trace amounts of water. • The Soviets launched Zond 2 shortly afterwards but lost communications with it right after it reached Mars, making it their 6th failed mission. They launched two more missions in 1969 and 1971 but they both failed as well, continuing the streak. Finally in 1971, they sent up Mars 2 and Mars 3, with each one consisting of an orbiter and a lander. Both made it to Mars, and the obiters sent back photos and information. Those orbiters continue to circle Mars today. However, both landers failed. • In 1971 NASA sent up Mariner 8 and 9. Mariner 8 failed. Mariner 9 took off 11 days after the Soviet’s Mars 2 and 3 but was travelling faster, so it beat them to Mars and became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. It arrived during a planet-wide dust storm and had to wait six weeks for things to settle. Meanwhile, the Soviet’s Mars 2 arrived and its lander set down in the middle of the storm, immediately going offline. Mariner 9 spent a year in orbit and sent back 7,300 pictures revealing canyons, river beds, and the discovery of Olympus Mons, the largest extinct volcano in the solar system. • In 1973 the Soviets sent up four Mars probes, three of which failed. The 4th sent back half of one picture before communication failed. At this point they had only 2 successful missions out of 18. They didn’t send another mission to Mars for another 15 years. • In 1975, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2, both consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were both a success. Viking 2’s orbiter sent back nearly 16,000 images of Mars. Viking 1’s lander sent back the first panoramic photo of the planet. ...continued

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THE MARS CURSE (cont.):

• The next Mars mission was in 1988 when the Soviets sent up probes Phobos 1 and 2. One of them failed; the other took 37 pictures of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars. In 1991, the USSR dismantled, but in 1996 the Russian space agency sent up another Mars probe that failed to leave Earth’s orbit. • In 1992, NASA’s winning streak of five successful missions ended when the Mars Observer orbiter lost communication just before it reached Mars orbit. The loss was painful because it cost $813 million, four times the original budget. The loss propelled NASA into new programs dubbed the Faster, Better, Cheaper mission, or FBC.

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• In 1996 NASA sent up the Pathfinder lander along with the Sojourner rover, the first to go up under the Faster, Better, Cheaper program. The Pathfinder lander was the first to use airbags upon landing. It transmitted over 16,000 images along with 8 million measurements, and found fossilized bacteria in a meteorite. The Sojourner was the first wheeled vehicle used on another planet. They were both expected to expire within a few weeks, but remained operational until 1997. • Also successful was NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor which arrived safely at Mars in 1997. It circled for ten years before losing contact in 2006, sending back information about ancient lava flows, gullies formed by flowing water, mineral deposits, and complete mapping of the surface. • In 1998, Japan’s only attempt to reach Mars failed when their probe ran out of fuel before getting there. Also in 1998, all three of NASA’s missions failed. NASA turned the corner in 2001 with the Mars Odyssey orbiter which is still operational, making it the longest serving spacecraft on Mars. This craft revealed vast amounts of ice buried beneath the poles. ...continued

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• NASA’s FBC program experienced failure with the 1999 Mars Polar Lander due to a mathematical miscalculation. Lockheed Martin was using metric measurements (Newtons of force per second) but their files were written in Imperial measurements (pounds of force per second). One pound of force is equal to 4.45 Newtons of force. The thrust needed to land on Mars was underestimated by a factor of 4.45, putting the craft into the wrong trajectory. It crashed. • In 2003 the European Space Agency launched the Mars Express Orbiter along with the Beagle 2 lander in their first attempt at reaching Mars. The Beagle failed. However, the Express orbiter was very successful and is still in operation. The Orbiter revealed more evidence of flowing water along with plotting minerology maps. • In 2003 NASA sent up the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity which were both successful. Although designed to last only 3 months, the Spirit remained in operation for 6 years before dying in a sand dune, and the Opportunity stayed functional for 15 years before falling silent in a sandstorm. They showed that Mars atmosphere and climate were once much more hospitable. • Another wildly successful mission was NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which began orbiting in 2006. It has returned more data than all previous Mars missions combined and continues to send data. • The Soviets made another attempt to reach Phobos with the Phobos-Grunt mission in 2011, which failed to leave Earth orbit. It was their 19th attempt to get to Mars in 28 years. Only five met with partial success. • NASA’s rover Curiosity arrived safely in 2012, followed by Perserverance in 2021 and its helicopter Ingenuity. Every single American mission in the 2000s succeeded. The Mars Curse is now broken!

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• Average surface temp of Venus, the hottest planet: 842 F (450 C) • Average surface temp of Earth: 58 F (18 C) • Average temp in outer space: -458 F (-270 C) • Temperature of absolute zero: -459 F (-273 C) • Temp of Mercury at night: -280 F (-173 C) • Temp of Mercury in the afternoon: 800 F (427 C) • Number of moons circling Jupiter: 79 • Length of time required to walk to the Moon: 9.5 years • Angle at which Earth tilts: 23 degrees • Angle at which Uranus tilts: 98 degrees • Length of Earth’s seasons due to tilt: 1 year • Length of Uranus’ seasons due to tilt: 21 years • Percent of the Moon invisible from Earth: 41% • Year when the far side of the Moon was first seen by spacecraft: 1959 • Earth years required to cross the width of the Milky Way at the speed of light: 100,000 • Number of volcanoes on Venus: 1,600 • Number of volcanoes on Earth: 1,350 • Number of Earth years required for Neptune to make a single orbit of the Sun: 165 • Distance to the edge of Outer Space from the surface of Earth: 62 miles (100 km) • Distance above Earth the International Space Station (ISS) orbits: 250 miles (400 km) • Time it takes the ISS to circle Earth: 92 minutes • Number of named constellations in the night sky: 88

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• Southwest Airlines began using the slogan “Just Plane Smart” to promote their company in a new advertising campaign. That riled up a company called Stevens Aviation, an aircraft firm based in South Carolina, because they were already using the slogan “Plane Smart.” Lawyers were subsequently hired. • Then the CEO of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, came up with a proposal: the issue would be settled by an arm wrestling match between himself and the CEO of Stevens Aviation, Kurt Herwald. Kelleher issued the challenge: company employees would be the spectators at the match; all funds raised would be donated to charity; and the winner of the match would get to keep the slogan. • Kurt Herwald was a young and athletic bodybuilder, while Herb Kelleher was the exact opposite. Herwald accepted the challenge and the game was on. • In the lead-up to the event, Kelleher flaunted his pudgy 40-year-old body in training videos. With a cigarette in his mouth, he did weight training with bottles of Wild Turkey whisky. The assistance of three stewardesses were required to help him complete a single sit-up as he rigorously prepared for the match. • The event was billed as “Malice in Dallas” and was held in March of 1992 at the Dallas Sportatorium in front of hundreds of fans. Crowds shouted “Herb! Herb! Herb!” as Kelleher entered the stadium wearing a poorly tied bathrobe. His right arm hung in a sling and he explained to the announcer that he had recently been injured while saving a small girl from being hit by a car while running across the I-35 freeway. He complained that he was currently suffering from a cold, as well as athlete’s foot. But when Herwald entered the area, Kelleher took a wild lunge and had to be re...continued strained by the ring officials.

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• Many television stations were on hand, including CNN and BBC. Kelleher opened the show by presenting a substitution order issued by the supreme court of Texas, allowing a proxy to replace him. The chosen proxy was world champion arm wrestler J.R. Jones. Herwald objected, but was ignored. • Matched against the world champion, Kurt Herwald of Stevens Aviation lost the first three matches in quick succession. • Frustrated, Herwald now loudly declared that “If they can bring in a ringer, I can bring in a ringer too” and brought out his own substitute. But rather than a muscle-bound champion, his proxy was a Stevens Aviation customer service representative, a tiny woman dubbed “Killer” Annette Coats. She weighed half as much as Kelleher, but she won the next set of matches easily. • Kelleher and Herwald went head-to-head (or hand-to-hand) in the next set of matches, with Herwald winning handily. Stevens Aviation had now officially won ownership of the slogan. Then a wrestler jumped into the ring and began to choke Kelleher. Herwald rushed to Kelleher’s rescue, and they teamed up to chase the spandexclad wrestler out of the ring. Kelleher turned to Herwald to thank him for saving his life, and the two shook hands. • Herwald took the microphone for an announcement, stating that in order to show there were no hard feelings, and to avoid being accused of taking advantage of senior citizens, Stevens Aviation had decided to allow Southwest Airlines to keep the slogan in exchange for a $5000 contribution to Ronald McDonald House “because they need the money more than Southwest Airlines does.” The entire event was a publicity coup. In 2018, Southwest carried more domestic passengers than any other U.S. airline.

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