A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

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A Soviet spacecraft that stalled on its way to Venus is about to fall back to Earth, space-debris trackers say, and nobody knows where it might land. Trackers think the object that's rapidly losing ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the ...