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June 29th, 2001
Vangelis’ Nasa Tribute dotmusic.com
The Oscar-winning composer Vangelis’ most recent composition ‘Mythodea’ is dedicated to the Nasa space mission to Mars and was premiered at the Temple of Zeus in Athens earlier this week. The musician has had a life-long passion for space and wrote his new material to mark Nasa’s 2001 Mars Odyssey that was launched in April to find water on the planet. Operatic stars Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle performed ‘Mythodea’ alongside the London Metropolitan Orchestra and a 120-member chorus from Greece’s National Opera, reports the BBC. Vangelis commented before the show: “Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.”
June 27th, 2001
Vangelis to honor space at ancient Athens temple
Greek Oscar-winning composer Vangelis says his latest composition, commemorating a NASA mission to Mars, stems from a long love affair with space. “Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood,” the composer said in a pre-concert statement Wednesday. Vangelis, who won an Academy Award for the soundtrack to 1982 film “Chariots of Fire,” will unveil his new composition “Mythodea” at Athens’ Temple of Zeus archeological site on Thursday. The choral symphony, which will feature opera divas Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, was composed to mark NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey which was launched in April.
June 20th, 2001
Mars probe warding off radiation sickness
NASA engineers have raised the temperature on a Mars-bound spacecraft to help it weather a bout of space radiation. The induced fever should take care of radiation damage affecting an instrument on the Mars 2001 Odyssey, the space agency said. Mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a radio command last week ordering Odyssey to heat up its gamma ray spectrometer detector. The action was designed to erase radiation damage that has occurred naturally during the interplanetary cruise.
June 18th, 2001
Mars Odyssey Mission Status
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft is in excellent health as engineers continue to check out and evaluate the performance of its systems and science instruments during its early cruise phase.
June 8th, 2001
Mars Odyssey On Track and ‘Working Very, Very Well’
Unlike its recent predecessor, NASA’s latest Mars-bound spacecraft appears to be on track for the Red Planet. The Mars Odyssey, which launched earlier this year and is set to arrive on October 23, currently is about a third of a way to its destination. “The Odyssey is working very, very well,” said spacecraft manager Roger Gibbs. “Hopefully that will continue, and we
June 1st, 2001
Wanted: Questions for Mars Webcast
Mars scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, will give the latest report about the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, now en route to the mysterious red planet, in a webcast available for viewing starting June 7 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. JPL scientist Dr. Claudia Alexander will host the webcast, which will feature answers to questions submitted in advance, along with interesting images and cool animations of Mars.
May 30th, 2001
Public Gets a Chance to Use Instrument Similar to One Headed for Mars University of Arizona
The UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory’s Gamma Ray Spectrometer Team has created an exhibit that describes the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) Instrument, part of the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission now on its way to Mars. The Mars Odyssey was launched on April 7, 2001 and is expected to arrive at Mars on Oct. 24 of this year. The Park Place exhibit allows participants to use and understand spectrometers, a key technology used in the GRS instrument. At the exhibit, spectrometer is used to view different kinds of lights. The spectrometer breaks the light into its individual colors and allows the chemicals in each bulb to be identified because of their unique, beautiful color patterns.
May 24th, 2001
Mars Odyssey Makes First Course Correction, Detects Gamma Ray Bursts
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft performed its first trajectory correction maneuver early on May 23 as it fired its thrusters to fine-tune its flight path for arrival at Mars in October.
May 23rd, 2001
Mars Odyssey fine-tunes its trajectory to the Red Planet Spaceflight Now
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).