But if Mariner 10’s mission was historic, so was the Boeing-built spacecraft itself, which for the first time used the gravity of one world (Venus) to reach another (Mercury) and in doing so ...

Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner series and the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to reach another (Mercury). It was also the first probe ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and the second spacecraft to study it up close after NASA's Mariner 10 flew by the planet in the 1970s. MESSENGER spent four years orbiting Mercury.

Mariner 10, which performed one flyby of Venus and three flybys of Mercury in the 1970s, was the first spacecraft to view the first rock from the Sun. Solomon explained that the data from Mariner ...

When Mariner 4 flew by Mars on July 15, 1965, it captured the first images of another planet from space. But the first image of Mars ever seen on TV was different than expected.

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...