Mars flyby and rendezvous with the flyby segment transferring the crew over. (see also Mars Excursion Module (MEM)) Alternately, a flyby-only human mission is also possible, without detaching at Mars, but to slingshot around Mars and back to Earth. In July 1965, Mariner 4 achieved a flyby of Mars with a return of data, providing the public and scientists with dramatically closer images of Mars. During the flyby Mariner 4 took 21 pictures amounting to about 1% of the surface of Mars. Mars was not globally mapped until the Mariner 9 orbiter, which over the course of 1972 to 1973 took thousands
Space probe (first weather balloons deployed on another planet) at Venus before their rendezvous with Halley's Comet. This Japanese probe was the first non-US, non-Soviet interplanetary probe. A second Japanese probe, it made ultraviolet wavelength observations of the comet. The first space probe to penetrate a comet's coma and take close-up images of its nucleus. First solar wind sample return probe from sun-earth L1. First sample return probe from a comet tail. First probe to land on an asteroid. First sample return probe to launch from an asteroid. The Rosetta space probe flew by two asteroids and made a rendezvous and orbited