Model of Pioneer's Venus expedition spacecraft, 1978
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- 1978 (original) in unknown
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- Unknown
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Pioneer Venus spacecraft (launched 1978) model, scale 1:48
The probe completed its mission to map the surface of Venus, but could not survive the Solar System’s hottest planet and destroyed on October 8, 1992.
