Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Significant Voyages
Launch of Mariner 1 on July 22, 1962.
Mariner 10 used the gravity of Venus to propel itself to Mercury.
Mariner 10 on board an Atlas-Centaur Rocket.
Launched in 1973, Mariner 10 used the gravity of Venus to propel it to Mercury with a minimal use of fuel.
Trajectory of Mariner 10. After launch and flyby of Venus, it orbited the Sun to fly by Mercury three times.
A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery.
Mask, Oregon Territory
Beginning in 1961, U.S. manned space missions were controlled from this room, "Mercury Control," at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Mice, Funafuti Atoll (Mus exulans, Mus vitiensis)
Cmdr. John Rodgers and his crew spent nine days adrift at sea in this aircraft after failing to rendezvous with a refueling ship.
