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MISSION LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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The Mariner 4 spacecraft.

Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth
in a
series of spacecraft
intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct close up scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet
Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. On December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.
 

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                     Launch of Mariner 4.


The clearest Mariner 4 image showing craters.

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LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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The crew of Apollo 12, from left, were Charles Conrad, Richard
Gordon and Alan Bean.

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the U.S. Apollo program and the
second to land on the Moon. It was launched from the Kennedy Space
Center
, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Mission commander Charles
"Pete" Conrad
and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over
one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module
Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the
mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.

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LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1972


The Apollo 16 crew: Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot;
John W. Young, commander; and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module
pilot.

Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program,
the fifth and next to the last to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The second of the so-called "J missions," was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 PM EST. The mission lasted 11 days, 1 hour, and
51 minutes, and concluded at 2:45 PM EST on April 27, 1972.

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CAME CLOSE TO VENUS ON THIS DAY IN 1962

Mariner 2 was a U.S. space probe to Venus and the first robotic space probe
in the NASA Mariner program to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The
spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962 and passed
as close as 21,607 Miles to Venus.   

        
          Launch of Mariner 2
       
          Detailed Graph of the Mariner 2 Spacecraft.

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LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1797

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United
States Navy, named by President George Washington after the Constitution of
the United States of America. The Constitution was one of six original frigates
authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was the third to be
constructed.

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USS Constitution fires a 17-gun salute near U.S. Coast Guard Base
Boston during the ship’s Independence Day demonstration last year
in Boston Harbor.

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