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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE 354-5011
FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1965
PASADENA--Appointment of project managers for the two
forthcoming Mariner-series deep space exploration mission to Venus
and Mars has been announced by Gen. A. R. Luedecke, Deputy Direc-
tor of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute
of Technology.
Dan Schneiderman, Mariner IV project Manager, will
manage the Venus project. It involves a single spacecraft to be
launched in 1967. In addition, he will continue through 1967 in
the completion of his duties as Project Manager for the recently
successful Mariner IV mission to Mars.
H. M. Schurmeier, former Ranger Project Manager and
currently Capsule System Manager for the Voyager series, will
manage the new Mars project, an effort involving two new Mariner
spacecraft scheduled for launch in 1969.
Effective February 1, Schurmeier will relinquish his
duties as Voyager Capsule System Manager to Geoffrey Robillard,
who will also continue in his present duties as Deputy Voyager
Project Manager under Dr. D. P. Burcham, Luedecke said.
Voyager is a planetary exploration spacecraft scheduled
for launch to Mars in 1973.
JPL will design and build the two Mariner/Mars '69
spacecraft and modify a spare Mariner IV spacecraft for the Venus
mission in 1967.
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JPL was assigned project management for the two new
planetary mission by the National Aeronautics and Space Admini-
stration.
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