How the Soviets Put a Lander on Venus

About this episode

This episode explores the Soviet Union's Venera missions that successfully landed on Venus and the engineering challenges they overcame.

Venus is the most hostile planet in the solar system, with crushing pressure and temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Yet the Soviet Union successfully landed spacecraft on its surface. Discover how the legendary Venera missions survived the impossible, captured the first images from Venus, and achieved one of the greatest engineering feats in space history. #venus #space #ussr #sovietunion #venera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: TheSoul Publishing

Topics covered

• space exploration
• engineering feats
• Soviet missions
• Venus
• Venera program

Keywords

• Venus
• Soviet Union
• spacecraft
• Venera
• engineering
• space history
• missions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Soviet Union, Venera

Places: Venus

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