Venera

Venera was the USSR program for sending spacecraft to the planet Venus. A Venera 3 spacecraft was the first manmade object to land on another planet in our solar system.  Venera 3 crash landed on Venus on 1 March 1966.  Venera 7 also landed on Venus.  It landed in 1970.  It was the first spacecraft to send information back to Earth after landing on another planet.

Origin of the name: It is the Russian name for the planet Venus.

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Category:Venus
Category:1960s in spaceflight
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