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More than 50 years after trying to reach Venus, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land instead of crashing on a planet. Vega 2 was the last USSR Venus mission in 1984.
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