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Mission to Mars!

MGS successfully launched at 12:00:50 EST in nearly perfect weather!
(NASA announcement on Thursday, November 7, 1996.)

MGS stands for Mars Global Surveyor. MGS is a 2300 lb spacecraft that will reach Mars in September of 1997.

Global Surveyor will orbit the planet and take data, but it will not land. It is the first of 10 martian probes to be dispatched during the next decade.