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... He was discharged from the Army as a first lieutenant. He was associated briefly with Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City before joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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... 246 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES the Apollo lunar landing; Mariner 4, which photographed Mars in July 1965; the Surveyor lunar soft lander series, from 1966 to 1968 (including as Surveyor program manager) ; Mariner 5, to Venus in 1967; Mariners 6 and 7, to Mars in 1959; Mariner 9, to Mars in 1971; and Mariner 10, the first spacecraft to travel to Mercury, in 1973.
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... R O B E RT J PA R K S 247 Bob died on June 3, 2011, of complications following injuries suffered from a fall in his home.

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