Aphrodite Program

The Aphrodite Program, or Project Aphrodite, was the fourth American human spaceflight program carried out by NASA.

Missions

 * 1 (February 1973) - Block III CSM at an altitude of 25,000 miles, 6 month flight.
 * 2 (October 1973) - Block IV CSM. "Venus or Bust". Flewby within 3,000 miles of Venus' surface, in March 1974. Returned to Earth in Deceber 1974. This was considered the publicity half of NASA's fall 1973 missions to Venus as it was acheived the first man to Venus and within .3 AU of Mercury, while Mariner 10 was considered the scientific portion, beating Aphrodite to Venus.