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Mariner 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 27 Aug 1962, 06:53 am UTC
Rocket: Atlas Agena B (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Planetary Science
Orbit: Venus flyby
Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Backup of Mariner 1, designed to flyby Venus. It passed below the planet at a closest distance of 34,773 km.