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Mariner 2 spacecraft model

1963 group incl: Sir William Pickering & President JF Kennedy

In 1963 Sir William Pickering (center), Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director, presented a Mariner 2 spacecraft model to President John F Kennedy. In 1962 this American space probe to Venus was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter.

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