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1. 1962 64 years ago

   Mariner 2 flies past Venus

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Mariner 2

   Mariner 2 completed the first successful close-range planetary encounter.

2. 1965 61 years ago

   Mariner 4 flies past Mars

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Mariner 4

   Mariner 4 returned close-range photographs of Mars during its encounter.

3. 1974 52 years ago

   Mariner 10 first encounters Mercury

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Mariner 10

   Mariner 10 completed its first Mercury flyby after a Venus gravity assist.

4. 1975 51 years ago

   Mariner 10 makes its final Mercury flyby

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Mariner 10

   The spacecraft passed Mercury for a third time, approaching within about 327 kilometers.

5. 1979 47 years ago

   Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Voyager 1

   Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter.

6. 1979 47 years ago

   Voyager 2 encounters Jupiter

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Voyager 2

   Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Jupiter.

7. 1980 46 years ago

   Voyager 1 encounters Saturn

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Voyager 1

   Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Saturn and studied its rings and moons.

8. 1986 40 years ago

   Voyager 2 encounters Uranus

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Voyager 2

   Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to fly past Uranus.

9. 1986 40 years ago

   Giotto encounters Halley's Comet

   Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

   Mission: Giotto

   ESA's Giotto spacecraft flew past Halley's Comet.

10. 1989 37 years ago

    Voyager 2 encounters Neptune

    Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

    Mission: Voyager 2

    Voyager 2 made the first close spacecraft encounter with Neptune.

11. 1997 29 years ago

    NEAR flies past asteroid Mathilde

    Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

    Mission: NEAR Shoemaker

    NEAR observed Mathilde during its journey toward Eros.

12. 2007 19 years ago

    New Horizons receives a Jupiter gravity assist

    Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

    Mission: New Horizons

    New Horizons used a Jupiter encounter to accelerate toward Pluto.

13. 2015 11 years ago

    New Horizons flies past Pluto

    Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

    Mission: New Horizons

    New Horizons completed the first close-range reconnaissance of Pluto and its moons.

14. 2019 7 years ago

    New Horizons flies past Arrokoth

    Category: Mission Operations and Milestones › Type: Flyby

    Mission: New Horizons

    New Horizons explored the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth at close range.