Originally, "Voyager 2" was planned as Mariner 12 of the Mariner program however, due to congressional budget cuts, the mission was scaled back to be a flyby of Jupiter and Saturn, and renamed the Mariner Jupiter-Saturn probes.
Originally, "Voyager 2" was planned as Mariner 12 of the Mariner program however, due to congressional budget cuts. Originally, "Voyager 2" was renamed the Mariner Jupiter-Saturn probes.