A manned Venus flyby was considered by NASA in the mid 1960s as part of the Apollo Applications Program, using hardware derived from the Apollo program. Launch would take place on October 31, 1973, with a Venus flyby on March 3, 1974 and return to Earth on December 1, 1974.
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“For her own person,
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O’er-picturing that Venus where we see
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