Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the Mariner program. Launched on July 22, 1962 as a Venus flyby mission, a range safety officer ordered its destructive abort at 09:26:16 UT, 293 seconds after launch. According to NASA's current account for the public:
What NASA's website describes as "[i]mproper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment" caused the booster to lose contact with one of the guidance systems on the ground, setting the st...
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