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If all goes to plan, a rocket carrying a payload consisting of a spacecraft, landing module, atmospheric balloon and assorted instruments will launch from Earth and travel some 90 million miles to Venus in 2030, on a mission to explore the planet’s toxic yet, in many ways, remarkably Earth-like atmosphere.