Mariner 2 flies past Venus
Date as reported
Mariner 2 completed the first successful close-range planetary encounter.
- Category
- Mission Operations and Milestones
- Type
- Flyby
- Mission
- Mariner 2
- Programme
- Mariner
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Destination
- planet
- Target body
- Venus
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA — 60 moments in NASA history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.