But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the ... Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never ...

They add: "The asteroid's orbit around the Sun sees it safely pass Earth several times in just a few years before ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth ... The asteroid, dubbed ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

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"As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus ... sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an anomaly, stranding Kosmos 482 in an elliptical orbit around ...