Nanaimo Astronaut Patrick Michael Sullivan Pioneering Spac..

Working from his Mt. Benson Street home in Nanaimo, astronaut Pat Sullivan
is pioneering space trials of a new vehicle that will land on Venus and
collect data for NASA.

Patrick Sullivan said this is similar to the Mars lander, that was part of
the NASA Mars Surveyor '98 program, which consisted of two spacecraft
launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor
'98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98
Lander). Mars Polar Lander also conveyed the Deep Space 2 surface-penetrator
mission to Mars. The two missions were designed to study the Martian
weather, climate, water and carbon dioxide levels, in order to understand
the reservoirs, behavior, and atmospheric role of volatiles and to search
for evidence of long-term and episodic climate changes. Communication with
the lander was lost prior to atmospheric entry.

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