Venera

Venera was the USSR program for sending spacecraft to the planet Venus. A Venera 3 spacecraft was the first manmade object to land on another planet in our solar system. Venera 3 crash landed on Venus on 1 March 1966. Venera 7 also landed on Venus. It landed in 1970. It was the first spacecraft to send information back to Earth after landing on another planet.

Origin of the name: It is the Russian name for the planet Venus.

Venera Media

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  Position of Venera landing sites. Red points denote sites returning images from the surface, black central dots sites of surface sample analysis. Map based on mapping from Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Magellan.

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  Full-scale model of the Venera 1 in the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

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  Model of Venera 7 lander in the Cosmos Pavilion, VDNKh

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  KTDU-425A liquid-propellant engine used on Venera spacecraft from 9 to 16

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  Artist's impression of Venera 10 lander on Venus's surface

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  A life-size, cut-away model of a Venera type Venus lander on display in one of the pavilions of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy.

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  Radar topography obtained by Venera 15/16

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  First view of Venus's surface or any other planet other than Earth. The first clear panoramic image taken by Venera 9 lander. This image was sent back in the lander's 53-minute lifetime 22 October 1975. Although it was intended to be a 360-degree image, the second camera's lens cap did not open resulting in this 180-degree panorama.

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  Venera 1 (a) (Memorial Museum of Astronautics)

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  Sputnik