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Six decades of exploring the planets! On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft made the first successful flyby of another world when it buzzed by Venus. 🛰⚪

Follow our current expeditions, operating at points ranging from the Sun to beyond Pluto: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov
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