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After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft Is Crashing Back to Earth

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Kosmos 482 launched on March 31, 1972 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan .

The mission was an attempt by the Soviet space program to reach Venus .

It failed to gain enough velocity to enter a transfer trajectory toward the scorching-hot planet.

The spacecraft broke apart into four different pieces, with two of the smaller fragments reentering over New Zealand .

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