Continuing with our sci-tech history lessons, here’s an amazing site of Soviet space history, specifically, their Venus explorations. It’s amazing to realize just how little media coverage all of these missions received in the US, with three atmospheric probes, TEN(!) landings, four orbiters, eleven flybys or impacts, and two balloon probes. That’s a lot of mission success, in fact, the Soviet Venus missions constituted the largest effort to date to study a single planet. I love the images on this site. The look of Soviet space hardware is so unique and so different from ours. Retro-futurism, dude!
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