The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

Kosmos 482, was launched by the USSR in 1972 and once bound for Venus, but a badly configured timer onboard the probe meant ...

The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either ...

Blue Origin has been flying tourists into space since 2021. The last time there was an all-female space flight was in 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova did a solo flight on a Soviet spacecraft.