... Cassini To Venus . ... Credit: KSC , NASA Explanation: NASA's Saturn Explorer Cassini with ESA's Titan Probe Huygens attached successfully rocketed into the skies early yesterday morning. ... Cassini, a sophisticated, bus-sized robot spacecraft is now on its way ... to Venus , the first planetary way point in its 7 year, 2.2 billion mile journey to Saturn. The mission profile calls for Cassini to swing by Venus during April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999, and Jupiter in December 2000. ...