He noted in a 2006 talk that if NASA had relied on the AU value commonly accepted before JPL’s experiment, the Mariner 2 probe—which in 1962 became Earth’s first successful interplanetary ...

JPL, interestingly, is not a direct part or ... but no spacecraft has ever made the journey there faster than August 1962's Mariner 2 mission, which took 109 days to arrive. For another, of ...

Dr. William Hayward Pickering, a central figure in the U.S. space race and former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 to 1976, has died. Pickering - known affectionately as ...