Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Mariner 10 launched 1973



Mariner 10, launched November 3, 1973, was the first spacecraft to to visit two planets.  It was the last spacecraft of the Mariner program.  It made a flyby of Venus in February 1974.  It proceeded to make three flybys of Mercury in March 1974, September 1974 and then March 1975.  

Mariner 10 was decommissioned shortly after.


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