Space Policy Edition: Pathfinder and the Birth of the Discovery Program
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Pathfinder
Pathfinder was a technology demonstrator of the of this sort of minny or even micro rover that pathfinder could carry and put on the surface. It helped maybe smoothe over some of the disruption peal, after losing near it gave aa administration that was big on mars, a mars mission, but also didn't have the moneya unaffordable mars mission suddenly shows up. And so r to pioneer rove or technology. So that came inand became a package, you know, the pathfinder craft, something a cheap waiter to get a cheaper way to get to the surface of marsn,. and nd, having a demonstrator for ropei. Bt at the end
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