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1. www.scientificamerican.com › article › why-is-it-soWhy Is It So Much Harder for NASA to Send People to the Moon ...

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   Sep 17, 2024 · Is it really harder to build great things now? And when it comes to the moon, why should replicating a feat the U.S. accomplished more than half a century ago take so long?

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2. www.scientificamerican.com › article › nasa-justNASA Just Broke the ‘Venus Curse’: Here’s What It Took

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   Jun 2, 2021 · This mission, Smrekar says, will finally give scientists a high-fidelity view of Venus akin to the richly detailed data sets they have long possessed for the moon and Mars.

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4. www.space.com › how-long-does-it-take-to-get-toHow long does it take to get to the moon? | Space

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   Aug 9, 2023 · The fastest flight to the moon without stopping was achieved by NASA's New Horizons probe when it passed the moon in just 8 hours 35 minutes while en route to Pluto. Currently, the fastest...

5. www.space.com › veritas-mission-delay-affect-venusDelays to NASA's VERITAS mission a major blow for Venus ...

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   Apr 5, 2023 · Late last year, NASA pushed the VERITAS (or Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy) mission, originally scheduled to fly in 2027 to inaugurate the " Decade of...

6. www.popsci.com › space › nasa-new-venus-missions-daThe inside story of the new NASA missions to Venus | Popular ...

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   Jun 29, 2021 · NASA’s 1978 Pioneer Venus mission produced the first crude radar maps. But in the decade that followed, NASA launched no planetary science missions.

7. www.space.com › venus-mission-success-historyHere's every successful Venus mission humanity has ever ...

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   Sep 18, 2020 · NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging mission made two flybys of Venus en route to Mercury, as part of a series of several planetary gravity assists. The Venus...

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   What was the first mission to Venus?

   • Mariner 2 was the first successful mission not only to Venus, but to any other planet. It made a flyby of Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. The NASA spacecraft recorded Venus' temperature for the first time, showing it has a surface temperature of roughly 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius).

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   Why did NASA map the surface of Venus?

   • Some of those measurements, like mapping the surface of Venus with at at least a three-times better resolution than Magellan, were intended to support another NASA Venus mission— DAVINCI (or Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging).

   Delays to NASA's VERITAS mission a major blow for Venus exploration

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   How many spacecraft have visited Venus?

   • Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two new missions to Venus: VERITAS, and DAVINCI. Why Return to Venus?

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   What was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus?

   • Mariner 2 became the first successful mission to another planet when it flew by Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. Pioneer Venus 1 launched on May 20, 1978, and was the first American spacecraft to orbit Venus. NASA's Magellan launched May 4, 1989, and was the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus.

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   Will a delay in Venus mission affect other missions?

   • (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Delays to the first of three missions making the long awaited return to the scorching planet Venus, which scientists say has not had enough robotic visitors in the past decades, might affect the two other missions set to explore our planetary neighbor.

   Delays to NASA's VERITAS mission a major blow for Venus exploration

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   When did NASA return to Venus?

   • NASA returned to Venus on Aug. 10, 1990 for its Magellan mission, which lasted for more than four years until radio contact was lost forever on Oct. 12, 1994. Magellan mapped the surface of Venus using synthetic aperture radar to better understand the topography of the planet.

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9. science.nasa.gov › venus › explorationVenus: Exploration - Science@NASA

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   Nov 9, 2017 · The mission is designed to bring the VERITAS science investigations into a low, circular orbit around Venus, in order to collect high-resolution, global maps of the hellish surface hidden beneath the clouds.