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"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
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"Venus is a Russian planet." That is what the head of Russia's space agency declared in 2020, and the West largely laughed it off....
Everyone is fixated on Mars. But there is a closer world, and a stranger idea. The surface of Venus is hot enough to melt...
In October 1967 the Soviet Union announced that Venera 4 had landed on Venus. It hadn't — the probe was crushed 17 miles up,...
The Soviet Union built armored titanium tanks to survive Venus. The United States never built a lander at all. Every American Venus probe was...
The fastest spacecraft ever launched. A nine-year journey across three billion miles. A world that, for 85 years, had been almost nothing but a...
They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
The first machine ever to land on another planet was written off as dead. A torn parachute, a capsule toppled on its side with...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...