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The Venera program was profoundly significant: 1965: First landing on another planet (crash) 1967: First spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atm
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
The Venera program was profoundly significant:
1965: First landing on another planet (crash)
1967: First spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere.
1970: First spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's surface.
It's amazing they did all this in the 60s and 70s.
- nemo44x 6y agoWe had commercial supersonic passenger flight in the mid-70’s. We don’t today. But we do have more affordable commercial flight I suppose. The Cold War was great for tech investment and research without a clear profit motive.
- f6v 6y agoYou also could just have millions of people working directly or indirectly for the benefit of those programs. To beat the "enemies" to it. It was a golden age for space exploration.