Marten family

The Marten Family was one of the most actively invested and influential families within the Thompson Products Pacific Semiconductors throughout the 1950s and 60s. Donald Marten was a chief engineer and financial investors into Pioneer 0. Dr. Marten truly believed the goal of his life and family was to further influence space travel, and was especially interested in space probes. He believed that by sending a probe to monitor from the moon's orbit, the PS could be able to withdrawal more information on the sun's life cycle and effects of radiation on neighboring planets, as well as our planet. In previous education, Dr. Marten was invested within radiation and its effects on the earth. His previous research articles such as How Radiation could be Potentially Ethereal showed his interests in radiation, and his belief that radiation is an anomaly/outsourced lifeform's way of messaging Earth.
Patty Marten was one of the avid supporters and leaders of fundraisers for Pioneer 0. She sincerely supported her husbands work, and as a stay at home wife she focused on children. Patty had 2 children, Nate and Debra Marten. Nate and Debra eventually both pursued similar fields of study as their father, except Debra decided to switch lanes and focus more on civil rights and suffrage movements. Patty and Debra became activists in 1958, when Debra was at a very young age. Unfortunately, August 18th both women went missing after the failure of the Pioneer 0 launch the day before. Nate left the family home months after their disappearance to find what he described as "refuge and safety" in the upper east states instead of in Florida. Dr. Marten lived another 5 years before his passing through sleep in 1963.