We’ll be looking at their stories, and trying to figure out what they could have done if everything broke right instead of going wrong. We now return to your regularly scheduled Moon shots—in the literal sense of the words and not as a metaphor for hitting a baseball a long, long wa...
Venera 7 — one of a series of Soviet probes sent in the 1960s and 1970s — was the first to make it to the surface of Venus and send data back, on Dec. 15, 1970. Itlasted 23 minutes on the surface, transmitting weakly towards Earth. This may have been because it came to rest ...
Venus Surface of Venus by Venera. Venera 7—one of a series of Soviet probes sent in the 1960s and 1970s—was the first to make it to the surface of Venus and send data back, on Dec. 15, 1970. It lasted 23 minutes on the surface, transmitting weakly towards Earth. This may have ...