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Mauna Kea Observatory

Olympus Mons - It's a volcano of a similar type to Mauna Kea. (But it's over two and a half times as high and doesn't have any observatories. Oh, and it's on Mars.)

Olympus Mons

Mariner 9 - orbiter focused on the Martian topography & sealed the facts on the volcano and largest known canyon in the universe, Valles Marineris (1800 miles long/5 miles deep)

Mariner 9

Mariner 2 - It did a flyby of Venus in 1962, the first spacecraft to have flown by another planet.

Mariner 2

Interplanetary Spacecraft - Mariner 2 was the first successful interplanetary vehicle

Interplanetary spacecraft

Voyager 2 - the greatest interplanetary spacecraft of them all, having done flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. It's now headed out of the Solar System, currently almost twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is at its aphelion (farthest distance).

Voyager 2

Titan IIIE/Centaur carrier rocket - was the launch vehicle that put Voyager into a slow, curved trajectory path that used gravity when passing the planets to continue onto the next of the four outer planets in the Solar Syatem

Titan IIIE/Centaur carrier rocket

Saturn V rocket - took the Apollo astronauts to the Moon and the last one was used to launch Skylab.

Saturn V rocket

Wernher Von Braun - designer of this successful launch rocket that was based on his work on rockets in Germany during World War II.

Wernher Von Braun

Moon Crater von Braun - lies along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum