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SCIENCE and technology in the Soviet Union was the subject of the first of the two symposia held over the Easter weak-end by the Faculty of Science of Marx House (Marx Memorial Library and Workers ...

Launched in March 1972, Kosmos 482 was bound for Venus. The mission was part of the Soviet Union’s Venera program. But a launch malfunction left the 500-kilogram probe stuck in Earth orbit.

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 ...

A San Rafael man lobbying the Tamalpais Union High School District to launch a girls flag football program says it is violating federal discrimination law by failing to approve a team this spring.

Kosmos 482, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for a Venus mission, got stuck in Earth's orbit due to a rocket failure and never left. A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday ...

“It recalls a time when the Soviet Union was adventurous in space – when we were all maybe more adventurous in space,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian ...

The object, known as Cosmos 482 (also spelled Kosmos 482), was originally launched by the Soviet Union in March 1972 as part of a mission to explore Venus. It was designed to make a soft landing ...

The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

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 uncontrolled ...