1961: Venera 1 (USSR)

On 12 February 1961, 00:34:36 UTC, the first planetary probe was launched to Venus by the Soviet Union. The Venus-1 Automatic Interplanetary Station, or Venera 1, was a 643.5 kg probe.

After 14 days in space, scientists lost touch with the spacecraft.

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[MightySaturn5]

@Monty22001 well said

[JineshJK]

@Monty22001 How failed? That was not a failure,(US faced from USSR). Hype and corruption always triggered by corporates. What about US No corruption? HYPE?? Western world never changed after WW-II and booming well as 'Corporates own nations, slaves..' And that is scary...

[Monty22001]

@JineshJK It failed from from its rotten idealogy. It breeds corruption and the overhyped nonsense of communism was never going to pay off, so people just got tired of dealing with the constant mess. The western world is seriously starting to go down that path now, which is scary.

[JineshJK]

@Monty22001 USSR failed not because of Communism.. but Leaders, lack of good leadership.

Corporate nations like USA or European countries never fail technically. but already failed.

[Monty22001]

@JineshJK 'free' public education doesn't mean jack to a country. They can fail with it. In fact, making it hard to get with a lot of effort is what society really needs. Yeah, it'll weed out a lot of potentially good ones, but it also 'weeds in' the ones that will take something from it.  That's why the USSR failed and why the USA and Europe will fail if we go down the lefitst path.

[JineshJK]

Results from High quality education...

That was the Soviet Power..

[Alexei55555]

@timothy1837 10 years its exact .. But Nasa give up fast ..

[vitoduval]

The last probe to get to Venus (Japanese) failed to get into Venus orbit. It will try again in a few years.

[MightySaturn5]

The ussr had large rockets due to their cumbersome A-bombs. When comparing the scientific data obtained by each countries first satellites its clear the soviets were behind in that area, with regards to spacecraft design & techniques the American Gemini program surpassed any previous soviet feats. By the time of Apollo the Americans were considerably ahead with every aspect.

The book "The Soviet space race with Apollo" (Siddiqi) provides detailed analysis of the afore mentioned.

[timothy1837]

the soviets were 10 years ahead of the americans.....apollo 11 prove them wrong