In 1962, Mariner 2 revealed Venus for the first time.
Mariner 4 flew by Mars a couple of years later.
Then there were the Voyagers, which passed by Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1980 and 1981, Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989.
And don't forget the Viking landers in the mid-1970s, which proved the non-existence of little green men on Mars.
The Boomers got to see all of this, unwrapping the Solar System, one greatest hit at a time.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/were-finally-going-to-the-solar-systems-most-intriguing-but-unexplored-frontier/
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