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* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
* 1974 – Tim Kasher, American singer-songwriter Cursive, The Good Life, Slowdown Virginia, and Commander Venus )
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).
Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).
* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
* 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).
* Ted & Venus ( 1991 ) – Colette
* 1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus.
* 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80, 800 km.
* 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
* 1961 – U. S. S. R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
* 1942 – Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams
* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
* 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus.
* 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
In 1874 – 1875, British, German and U. S. expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the transit of Venus.
* 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
* 1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
* 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
* 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
* 1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
– and orbiter
* 2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
* 1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
* 1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module.
* Pioneer 0 ( Thor-Able 1, Pioneer ) – Lunar orbiter, destroyed ( Thor failure 77 seconds after launch ) August 17, 1958
* Pioneer 1 ( Thor-Able 2, Pioneer I ) – Lunar orbiter, missed Moon ( third stage partial failure ) October 11, 1958
* Pioneer 2 ( Thor-Able 3, Pioneer II ) – Lunar orbiter, reentry ( third stage failure ) November 8, 1958
The orbiter is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery ( 1768 – 1771 ).
* August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
* March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
* Kaguya JPN – Lunar orbiter
* Luna 10 – first lunar orbiter
* Akatsuki JPN – a Venus orbiter
* Cassini – Huygens – first Saturn orbiter + Titan lander
* Galileo – first Jupiter orbiter + descent probe
* Mariner 9 – first Mars orbiter
* Mars Express – a Mars orbiter
* Mars Global Surveyor – a Mars orbiter
* Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – an advanced climate, imaging, sub-surface radar, and telecommunications Mars orbiter
* MESSENGER – first Mercury orbiter ( arrival 2011 )
* Pioneer Venus – first Venus orbiter + landers
Sputnik 1 – First Earth orbiter
* Sputnik 1 – 4 October 1957 – First Earth orbiter
* Sputnik 2 – 3 November 1957 – Earth orbiter, first animal in orbit, a dog named Laika
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