On Dec. 15, 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet when it set down on the surface of Venus. Equipped with temperature and pressure gauges and tools ...

Twelve probes have survived the trip to the broiling surface of Venus. Ten were Soviet landers, eight of which were part of the Venera series. The cores of the Venera probes consisted of ...

Today it sounds incredible but half a century ago, the Soviet Union landed a probe on another planet. Moreover, it did it in the absence of practically any information about its atmosphere or any ...

Venus is a pressure cooker with surface temperatures that melt lead. Yet, in the 1970s, the Soviet Union achieved the impossible: landing probes on its surface. This video chronicles the daring Venera ...

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 ...

In the 1900s, when space race was intensifying, the Soviet Union (Soviet Union), which had been quarreling with the United States, succeeded in sending a spacecraft to the surface of the moon for the ...

When we speak about the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that took place in the second half of the 20th Century, we often focus on the moon missions. There were, however, various other ...