NASA successfully launches Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft

Posted by jburk to Mars Polar Lander at December 12, 1998 12:00 PM

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched the Lockheed Martin Astronautics-built Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft Dec. 11 at 1:45 p.m. EST on a nine-and-a-half-month voyage to Mars.