OTD In Space – March 5: Soviet Space Probe Lands On Venus
On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its ...
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The Space Race
This set a pattern for the Soviet space program: missions were not announced until they could be hailed as successes. March 3: The U.S. sends the unmanned Pioneer 4 to the moon in the first ...
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The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...
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Sputnik 1
It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...