Venera 3 and the Soviet Venera Space Probe Program
On November 16, 1965, Soviet spacecraft Venera 3 was launched. The Venera program space probe was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It possibly crashed on Venus on 1 March 1966, possibly making Venera 3 the first space probe to hit the surface of another planet. The Venera Series Space Probes The Venera series space probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and…
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