It wasn’t for alien invaders. Soviet cosmonauts carried shotguns in case they landed in Siberia—where bears, wolves, and isolation were the real threats.

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union as part of a series of missions to Venus.

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission ... All in the Family was a hit on TV, and you don't even want to know how cheap a house was ($27,400). But spacecraft and ...

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth orbit, it’s not your average piece of space junk ... An episode of the hit 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man characterised ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus ... might come down or how much of it will survive reentry, according to space debris-tracking experts. Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek predicts ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth orbit, it’s not your average piece of space junk ... An episode of the hit 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man characterized ...

MOSCOW, 9 May (BelTA) - Belarus is ready to continue its policy towards further building cooperation with China, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the CGTN TV Channel in Moscow ...