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Mariner 10

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The first mission to use one planet’s gravity to reach another, and the first to visit Mercury. Operated by NASA; launched 1973-11-03; completed. Encounter dates are the operator’s mission record; the encounter order is an order, not a trajectory, and Atlas draws no path for it.

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  1. Story
  2. The first mission to use one planet’s gravity to reach another, and the first to visit Mercury. Operated by NASA; launched 1973-11-03; completed. Encounter dates are the operator’s mission record; the encounter order is an order, not a trajectory, and Atlas draws no path for it.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Mercury
  5. Venus
  6. Mariner 10
  7. Connections
  8. Mercury
  9. Venus
  10. Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
  11. Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
  12. Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
  13. Mariner 10
  14. MESSENGER
  15. BepiColombo
  16. Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
  17. Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
  18. MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975
  19. MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
  20. MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission
  21. BepiColombo’s first Mercury flyby
  22. BepiColombo’s sixth and final Mercury flyby
  23. BepiColombo Mercury orbit insertion — declared target
  24. Mariner 2
  25. Mariner 10
  26. Galileo
  27. Mariner 2 passes Venus — the first successful planetary flyby
  28. Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
  29. Galileo takes a gravity assist at Venus
  30. Evidence
  31. Launch dates, flyby dates and gravity-assist record for the Mariner planetary flybys.
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