How about Venus? —Alan E. Wright | Salt Lake City Landing on Venus is challenging enough for robotic missions, says Bruce Campbell, a senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum.

Esposito began his space science career with NASA’s Pioneer Venus missions in 1978, and in 1995 he was the first to observe the planet with the Hubble Space Telescope. Landing on Venus has ...

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes spent four months traveling to ...

"But given it likely never had oceans, it is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires ...

Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful landing in 1984, the USSR which had been running the Venera and Vega programs ceased their exploration of Venus. Even so the 1980s saw 8 ...

Over the last 50 years, spacecraft have landed on over half a dozen worlds. Including Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, a comet, and more. But nowhere has proven more treacherous than the Red Planet ...