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Mariner program

NASA space program

8 dated entries naming Mariner program, drawn from 6 separate years between 1962 CE and 1973 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1962July 22 – Mariner program: The U.S. Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.source
  • 1964November 28 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.source
  • 1964November 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 3 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.source
  • 1967June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.source
  • 1969August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 km).source
  • 1971May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.source
  • 1971November 13 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.source
  • 1973November 3 – Mariner program: NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet).source

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