The Cube Method. If you have a little bit of time on your hands, you can cut the stick(s) of butter into fourths and then cube into small pieces. The smaller the cubes, the quicker the butter will soften. Just leave them at room temperature for about an hour or until soft to the touch.
The first successful Venus flyby was NASAâs Mariner 2. This spacecraft was launched on August 8th, 1962 and made a successful flyby on December 14, 1962. So that calculates to 110 days from launch to arrival at Venus. The most recent spacecraft to fly to Venus was ESAâs Venus Express. It was launched on November 9th, 2005, and took 153 days to make the journey to Venus.
Voyager 1 took about a 16 months to get to Jupiter and then another 20 months to get to Saturn. Cassini launched in the opposite direction towards Venus to get a gravity assist; it took 39 months from Earth to get to Jupiter. Then it took another 41 months to get to Saturn.