Mariner 2
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Mariner 2, an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a
Mariner 2 engineering model
President Kennedy is shown a model of Mariner 2 during a meeting with NASA officials after the successful completion of the mission, 1963
Mariner II trajectory projected on the ecliptic plane.
Depiction of Mariner 2 in space
Mariner program
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The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary
Mariner 2
…space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1. The missions of the Mariner 1 and 2…
Launch of Mariner 1 in 1962
Diagram of Mariner 1 and 2 with Atlas-Agena launch vehicle