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Spacecraft launched by Atlas-Centaur rockets
Pioneer 11February 1969 marked the approval of Pioneer 11 and its twin probe, Pioneer 10. These spacecraft were the first designed to explore the outer Solar System.
Pioneer 10In the 1960s, American aerospace engineer Gary Flandro of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory conceived a mission known as the Planetary Grand Tour.
Mariner 10NASA launched Mariner 10 on the 3rd of November 1973 from Cape Canaveral. Boeing finished building the spacecraft at the end of June 1973 in Seattle before…
Surveyor 1Surveyor 1 touched down on the Ocean of Storms on the 2nd of June 1966. This event marked the first successful soft landing by an American space probe on any…