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53 Years After Its Launch, This Soviet Spacecraft Is About to Crash Into Earth

NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft got a look at Venus in 1974. Cosmos 482 never made it to the planet. The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March ...
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Soviet-era spacecraft is set to plunge to Earth a half-century after its failed launch to Venus

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth. It’s too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might ...
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Spacecraft, Mariner 10, Flight Spare

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner series and the first spacecraft to use the gravitational ...
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The First Spacecraft to Use Gravity Assist

Mariner 10 may have been the last of the Mariner spacecraft series, but it was the first to complete many new tasks. It was the first U.S. spacecraft to visit two planets - Venus and Mercury - in one ...