The list of accomplishments of the Mariner program is long indeed, and the number of firsts achieved by its ten spacecraft is impressive. But it is Mariner 4, the first flyby mission of Mars ...

On February 25th, 1969, NASA launched Mariner 6, a spacecraft intended to conduct a flyby of Mars to search for signs of life ...

A mere 50 years ago, we knew almost nothing about the planets of our solar system. We had essentially no informaton on the chemical properties of the planets and their atmospheres until 1969, when ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 space probe was the first spacecraft to complete a flyby of Mercury. The first of its three encounters with the planet took place on this day in ...

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Although an onslaught of astronaut sniffles and sore throats at Cape Kennedy last week delayed the orbital flight of Apollo 9, an unmanned spacecraft named Mariner 6 was successfully launched from ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Geospace Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: GEOS) announces the sale of Mariner™ ocean bottom wireless nodes to Caspian Engineering Company, a geologic-geophysical ...