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There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to Venus
A look at Rocket Lab’s private mission to Earth’s twin, and how NASA decides what planets to visit
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NASA last sent a spacecraft to orbit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 1990.
Russia, formerly the Soviet Union, sent a whole slew of mostly successful missions to Venus, and Japan has an orbiter there now.
The tricky part is sending a robotic mission to the surface. Most have only survived for a few hours. So why send a robot to a planet that will destroy it?
The short answer: It can likely tell us more about our home planet.