After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA’s Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.
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NASA Launches Mariner 2.
Soviet Space Program's Vega 1, which was launched on December 15, 1984, released a space probe to enter Venus.
A conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon occurred.
The first images from the surface of Venus were received after the Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 landed on the planet.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle ferried the Magellan space probe into orbit.
