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The Magellan spacecraft was intentionally crashed into Venus at the end of its extended mission on 12 Oct 1994, as a final experiment to measure atmospheric data on the way down and also determine the actual amount of propellant remaining at the end of the mission. The flight controllers were give a vote on one final experiment to be performed before the spacecraft was powered off (budgetary issue) and chose the "suicide" option.