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Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
Bent its course inward at Venus, proving the manoeuvre every later multi-planet tour depends on. An event in the record — no path is drawn from it. Encounter class: gravity assist.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Mariner 10 · mission · not located
- Venus · celestial body · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
NSSDCA master catalogue — Mariner programme
Launch dates, flyby dates and gravity-assist record for the Mariner planetary flybys.
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · Partly verified
NSSDCA master catalogue, Mariner 2, 4 and 10 entries
Recorded on Mariner 10
- Mariner 2 passes Venus — the first successful planetary flyby
- Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
- Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
- Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
- Galileo takes a gravity assist at Venus
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- Galileo takes a gravity assist at Venus · 1990-02-10
- Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass · 1975-03-16
- Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it · 1974-03-29
- Mariner 2 passes Venus — the first successful planetary flyby · 1962-12-14