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Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
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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 5
NASA flyby mission to Venus (1967–1968)
Mariner 5 was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet. Its goals were…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)