1967

1. 1967-06-14 launch

   Mariner 5 — launch

   Category: Launches and Flight Tests › , type: Orbital launch

   Mission: Mariner 5

   • Space transportation

   Mariner 5 (Mariner V or Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus's atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles…