According to, well, lots of places, in the afternoon of November 28, 1964, an Atlas-D rocket blasted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was conducted in plain sight of the public. Less than an hour later, the Mariner 4 probe was released into a Mars transfer orbit.
Seven and a half months later, on July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 reached Mars. The probe did not have the fuel or ability to enter an orbit--it was a flyby mission. The probe took 22 pictures of the Martian surface, stored them on on-board tape recorders, and began transmitting the data back to Earth. It took over two weeks for the 634 kb of data to be fully transmitted--twice, for redundancy.
Mariner 4 suffered several collisions with micrometeorites after its Mars flyby and ran out of fuel in its attitude control system. Communications with the probe was officially ceased on December 21, 1967, more than three years after launch.
That's the official record of what happened. That's what the majority of people here on this board and elsewhere understand what happened. It was an historic, ground-breaking mission. Before this, Mars was just a dot in the sky. Thanks to Mariner 4, Mars was now a
world, a planet with craters and mountain ranges and a thin atmosphere. Mars became a place where one day, people could stand. Mars became real in the 1960s like it never had before.
However, you, Cerberus, have declared that none of that happened. What we want to know is what you think actually happened. Did the Atlas-D rocket not really launch? Was the probe not released? Did Mariner 4 not really reach Mars? Did it not take scientific measurements and photos? Was that data not transmitted back to Earth? Did someone fake those photos? If the whole thing was faked, why did NASA fake the failures of Mariners 1, 2, and 3? What actually happened?
And more importantly, what is your evidence?
