| Description | NASA updates on planetary science programmes, including the following:
Mars exploration programme/Viking mission
Mars Data Analysis programme
Planetary materials programme
Space Shuttle
Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR)
Galileo project (Jupiter Orbiter/Probe)
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
Pioneer Venus orbiter
Solar maximum mission
Solar Polar mission
Comet Encke rendezvous
Mars geochemical orbiter
Mars sample return
Saturn orbiter dual probe
Includes a diagram of planetary operational spacecraft as of July 1979, FY78 Mars Programme Steering Group conclusions, a NASA five year planning document for fiscal years 1979 - 1983 and a White House fact sheet on US Civil Space Policy. In addition, a newsletter reporting the discovery of 3.3 billion year old fossil evidence for photosynthesis. |