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Appendix: Missions Mentioned in This Report
Pages 41-48

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... REPORT MENU NOTICE Artemis MEMBERSHIP PREFACE A series of small, low-cost, robotic lunar landers designed, as a part of the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bush Administration's Space Exploration Initiative, to conduct research CHAPTER 1 enabling the return of astronauts to the Moon. See Lunar Scout.
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... See TOMS, TRMM. Explorer A continuing line of moderate-cost astrophysics/space physics missions that includes the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer.
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... When it reaches Jupiter in December 1995, it will deploy an atmospheric entry probe and then conduct complex, multidisciplinary observations of the planet's atmosphere, rings, magnetosphere, and satellites. Giotto The European Space Agency launched this spacecraft in July 1985 on a trajectory that enabled it to perform a fast flyby of the nucleus of Halley's comet in March 1986.
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... Lunar Observer A proposed Planetary Observer that would have been assembled from spare components from Mars Observer. Originally designed to provide purely scientific information about the mineralogy and geochemistry of the lunar surface, the mission plan was later modified to include collection of data that would enable future human exploration missions.
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... The Global Surveyor will capture martian data using five spare instruments from the Mars Observer program. The missions will continue with a subsequent series of two small missions launched every 2 years, beginning with an orbiter and a lander to be launched in 1998.
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... Planetary Explorer A proposed line of low-cost planetary missions using a common spacecraft bus. This program evolved into Pioneer Venus.
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... Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) A Small Explorer mission designed to study interstellar molecular clouds by observing their emissions at submillimeter wavelengths.
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... Voyager A pair of spacecraft launched in August and September, 1977, designed to conduct reconnaissance observations of Jupiter (1979) and Saturn (1980 and 1981)
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