A Martian volcano, Arsia Mons, rises above the clouds in a newly released panoramic image captured by the Mars Odyssey ...

Man 2: Zero. And with that... Man 3: We have liftoff at 21 minutes past the hour... Man 4: And the vehicle has cleared the tower. [Indistinct transmissions] Leshin: I think the work we do at JPL ...

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. It had launched just eight days ...

On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Mariner 2 flew by Venus after a 3½-month voyage through space. The mission launched just one ...

JPL, interestingly, is not a direct part or ... but no spacecraft has ever made the journey there faster than August 1962's Mariner 2 mission, which took 109 days to arrive. For another, of ...

Mariner 2 launched on August 27, 1962, from Cape Canaveral and was engineered at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). John Logsdon, who served on NASA’s Columbia Investigation Board and is founder ...

the scaled back Mariner Jupiter-Saturn mission that was ultimately approved, and would later become Voyager 1 and 2, was something of a cheat on the part of NASA JPL engineers and planners.

cultural strategist in The Studio at JPL. “It’s just this object of curiosity and wonder. You can’t just walk by it. The story is so powerful.” In 1962, Mariner 2 became the first ...