space probes to/past Venus in last twenty years

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:21:09 -0700, Rusty
wrote:

Yea, you laugh now. Just wait. When we have robbed enough orbital
velocity from Venus with all these space probes, it will fall into the
Sun.

....Hey, if it takes Brad along for the downslide, I'm all for it.

OM

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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
.. .
Only one space mission visited Venus in
the past 20 years, by my count (T-shirt for
corrections), but a number of probes made
Venus-fly-bys on their way elesewhere --
does anybody have a complete list? I'm doing
a pre-flight piece on Venus-Express.

My favorite -- Mariner 10 - November 3, 1973
First spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to
reach another (Mercury). More than 4,000 photos of Venus taken on February
5, 1974 fly-by, at a distance of 4,200 kilometers (2,610 miles)
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/marin10.htm

gb