Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A replica of the descent capsule of the Soviet Venera-9 mission, a precursor to Kosmos 482, depicting the first soft landing on ...

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Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago. On average, a ...

A Soviet spacecraft that stalled on its way to Venus is about to fall back to Earth, space-debris trackers say, and nobody knows where it might land. Trackers think the object that's rapidly losing ...