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Mission
Kind: Mars orbiter
State: Launch failure
Place: Mars
Operator: NASA/JPL
Date
Start:
Duration: Failed to orbit
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D
Kind: NASA/JPL
Manufacturer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mass: 997.9 kilograms (2,200 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-36A
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Areocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Mariner-H (Mariner Mars '71), also commonly known as Mariner 8, was (along with Mariner 9) part of the Mariner Mars '71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orbit and return images and data, but a launch vehicle failure prevented Mariner 8 from achieving Earth orbit and the spacecraft reentered into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch.
