Mariner 2 Launched: First Probe Bound for Venus
NASA launches the Mariner 2 probe toward Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to successfully fly past another planet. This historic flight delivers the first direct measurements of a planet's atmosphere and surface temperature, proving that Venus is an inferno rather than a habitable world.
August 27, 1962
64 years ago
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What Else Happened on August 27
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