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The Soviet space program [3] (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1951 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 likely crashed back to Earth ... - CNN
The Soviet Union’s Space Research Institute, or IKI, ran a groundbreaking Venus exploration program amid the 20th century space race. Venera, as the program was called, sent a series of probes ...
Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to plummet to Earth this weekend ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.. Built to land on the solar system’s hottest planet, the titanium-covered spacecraft may survive its fiery, uncontrolled plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, predicted to occur on Saturday.But experts said it likely would come down over water ...
Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a ...
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to ...
A half-ton Soviet spacecraft is about to crash into Earth ... - NBC News
A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...
What the Soviet Venus Probe's fiery fall to Earth might ... - Space.com
A failed space probe from the former Soviet Union is expected to fall back to Earth soon, and if its plunge happens to take place over your head, some recent spacecraft reentries may offer some ...
Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by the Russian space agency Roscosmos and ...
Soviet Spacecraft Cosmos 482 Has Likely Impacted Earth Somewhere - Forbes
Venera 8, a Soviet probe for a set of Venus missions, was Cosmos 482's sibling spacecraft. NASA. The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are ...
This Soviet Spacecraft Will Soon Crash-Land on Earth
For Asif Siddiqi, a space historian at Fordham University, who is one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Soviet space program, the return of Kosmos-482 is a literal “object lesson ...
What to Know About the Soviet Spacecraft Plunging to Earth
Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969. This is a still from the film 'The Storming of Venus' released on May 17, 1969. Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969 ...
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