A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

Here's where the defunct spacecraft may crash land. Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972, ... Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel to Venus and pass through the planet's thick ...

On March 31, 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program. ... the half-ton capsule will most likely land in the water.

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March ...

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 ...

Soviet spacecraft expected to crash land on Earth in just days. ... The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 as part of a series of Venus missions.

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land.The Kosmos 482 mission ...