A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's. The ...
A piece of Soviet-era space debris is expected to crash land down to Earth this weekend. The Russian Kosmos 482 spacecraft launched in 1972 could come plunging down some time between Friday and Sunday ...
A Soviet spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago on a failed mission to Venus is expected to crash back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 Descent Craft spacecraft is expected to plummet to Earth at 1:52 a.m ...
Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...
While NASA celebrated the launch of its first Space Shuttle in 1981, the Soviet Union was racing to build its own orbital spacecraft using publicly available American technical data and Cold War ...
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