Hi guys,
In only 21 days we will have the orbit insertion of this great spacecraft:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=64
Venus Express is a follow on from the Mars Express mission. Many of the instruments on the mission are simply upgraded versions of those on the Mars Express platform. After a 153 day cruise to Venus the spacecraft will enter Venusian orbit in April 2006.
I hope the mission will be successful and we can start to investigate Venus as exhaustive as we do in Mars...