launched fromUSA

Mariner 2

Name: Mariner 2
Start: 1962-08-27T06:53:00Z
Location: Canaveral

Success

AUG 27196206:53:00 UTC

First spacecraft to reach the vicinity of another planet.

LIFTOFF

AUG 27 1962

06:53:00 UTC

Success

launched from LC-12 Canaveral

aboard Atlas Agena B LV-3 179D into Heliocentric

Payload

Venus flyby probe