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Until August 8 1978
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There was 16 missions, they wanted all these missions to try to take colored pictures from space of Venus, and the Russion's were very curious about Venus.
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Went through 1962-1973
Mariner 3 was launched 6/14/1967 -
Returned on Otober 11,1971
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Two different spaceships and they wanted to study mars surface and the atmosphere orbit around it.
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Used to view Jupiter an Saturn, but could also be used to view the outer planets. It went farther into space than anything else has ever in space before.
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Alternative to space exploration before they came up with a rocket.
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The spacecraft was in earth for 886 days.
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Crashed into Venus on October 11, 1994.
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Took about 3 years to be fixed and was expected to orbit in space until 2014.
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The mission was a flyby to take samples for geography to study and take photos.
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So journer landed successfully when other beforehand ships failed.
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The sputnik program was the first satelitte to go into space was the first date.
The Murcury program was to find humans in space, austronaunts, and safety for both. That happened in May 1961.
Gemini Progream was to get humans in space, helped with moon landings. Which happened on April 19, 1966.
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The spacecraft is still orbiting around earth today.