Mariner 2 was launched to Venus #OnThisDay in 1962 and became the first spacecraft to successfully reach another planet in the history of humanity. It's first up-close look at Venus revealed that it was not what we expected: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mariner-2/ | NASA History

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ON THIS DAY: In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he had blazed as the first American to orbit the Earth 36 years earlier. https://abcnews.link/fJLpsRq | ABC News