Mariner program: Timeline

1962   Mariner program: The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

1964   Mariner program: Mariner 3, a U.S. space probe intended for Mars, is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.

1964   Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet Planet

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 in July 1965.

1967   Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.

1969   Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).

1971   Mariner program: Mariner 9 Mariner 9

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 is launched toward Mars.

1971   Mariner program: Mariner 9 Mariner 9

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 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.

1973   Mariner program: NASA NASA

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 launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury Mercury (planet)

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 (on March 29, 1974 it becomes the first space probe Space probe

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 to reach that planet).