On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. It had launched just eight days ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus to better understand how Earth’s neighbor became an "inferno-like world," when it may have once been ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner series and the first spacecraft to use the gravitational ...

Mariner 10 may have been the last of the Mariner spacecraft series, but it was the first to complete many new tasks. It was the first U.S. spacecraft to visit two planets - Venus and Mercury - in one ...

NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft got a look at Venus in 1974. Cosmos 482 never made it to the planet. The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March ...