Posted by jburk to Mars Odyssey at May 23, 2001 12:00 PM

NASA's Mars-bound Odyssey space probe tweaked its flight path on Wednesday with the first in a series of planned trajectory correction maneuvers. Odyssey fired its thrusters for 82 seconds at 1:30 p.m. EDT, changing the craft's velocity by 3.6 meters per second (8.1 miles per hour).