The Mariner Mark II program

The Mariner Mark II spacecraft is a modular design that can be inexpensively reconfigured for different missions beyond the inner solar system. The first three missions will be described. The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby mission has a February 1993 launch to comet Tempel 2. The Cassini mission has a May 1995 launch to Saturn and Titan. The third mission is a Comet Nucleus Sample Return launch in 1998.