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Apollo Venus Flyby Spacecraft: Probe Release

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I recently had the pleasure of working with David S.F. Portree crafting illustrations of Apollo Applications Program spacecraft for his article Apollo Ends at Venus: A 1967 Proposal for Single-Launch Piloted Venus Flybys in 1972, 1973, and 1975.

In this illustration: The astronauts on board the Venus flyby spacecraft release the last of their atmosphere-entry probes a few hours before closest approach to the cloudy planet. Meanwhile, their optical telescope, scanning radar, and other instruments switch to high-rate data-collection mode.

Bio, David S.F. Portree: From 1992 to 1995, David Portree served as Senior Technical Writer and Historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has written several histories for NASA, including Thirty Years Together: A Chronology of U.S./Soviet Space Cooperation (1993), Mir Hardware Heritage (1995), Walking to Olympus: an EVA Chronology (1997), Orbital Debris: A Chronology (1999), and Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning. Astronomy Magazine, Air & Space Smithsonian, and other popular-audience magazines have carried his byline, and he has contributed more than 200 spaceflight and planetary science articles to encyclopedias. The International Academy of Astronautics gave Walking to Olympus its Napolitano Book Award in 1998. Most of David’s history writing at present is published on his Spaceflight History blog.


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