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__1966: __ The Soviet probe Venera 3 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. It's the first time anything man-made makes contact with an extraterrestrial surface beyond the Moon. The Soviet Union ...

Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 are more widely ...

In 1975, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9 lander became the first spacecraft to transmit photographs from the surface of Venus, surviving only 53 minutes before succumbing to the planet’s extreme ...

In 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander survived on Venus for just over two hours and captured 14 surface images before the planet’s heat destroyed it. Decades later, senior Russian scientist Leonid ...

There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and lander scoped out the surface of our ...

After the USSR launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, the space race quickly gained momentum. A decade later, the first space probe that entered the atmosphere of another planet while still operational did so ...