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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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

References

↑ "Venera 3". NASA. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
↑ "Venera 7". NASA. Retrieved July 21, 2020.

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[NASA2-1] "Venera 3". NASA. Retrieved July 21, 2020.

[NASA1-2] "Venera 7". NASA. Retrieved July 21, 2020.

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