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Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
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Mariner program
NASA space program from 1962 to 1973
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 (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System – visiting the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mariner 1
Failed NASA mission to Venus (1962)
Mariner 1, built to conduct the first American planetary flyby of Venus, was the first spacecraft of NASA's interplanetary Mariner program. Developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and originally planned to be a purpose-built probe launched summer 1962, Mariner 1's design was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)