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The Venera Project: The Soviet Union’s Venus Space Missions
Journey with us to the hottest planet in the solar system as we uncover one of the most daring and mysterious chapters in space exploration: The Venera Project. In this episode, we dive into the Soviet Union’s ambitious series of robotic missions to Venus — a world of crushing pressure, blistering temperatures, and clouds rich with sulfuric acid.
From early failures that seemed doomed to end before they began, to astonishing successes that delivered the first-ever images from the surface of Venus, we trace:
🔹 The origins of the Venera program during the Space Race
🔹 The engineering genius…
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