February 10th in Astronomy and Space Science
![]() | 1974 | The Soviet Mars 4 spacecraft flies by Mars. It was planned for Mars orbit, but overshot. It passed within 2,250 km (1,398 miles) of the planet and returned several photos as it went by. |
![]() | 1990 | The US-European spacecraft Galileo, while enroute to Jupiter, gets a gravity assist by swinging around Venus. |