50 years ago, a Soviet spacecraft spent a critical 50 minutes on Venus - Inverse

Launched in March 1972, Venera-8 was part of the Soviet Union's exploration of Venus — in less than an hour it revealed critical details of this seemingly inaccessible planet.

There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and lander scoped out the surface of our pla… [+7919 chars]

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