And though the Venus probe was equipped with a parachute ... Sorge told CNN. The chances of Cosmos 482 causing deadly damage are roughly 1 in 25,000, according to The Aerospace Corporation ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a botched mission to Venus. Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus ...

If everything had gone to plan, an uncrewed Soviet-era spacecraft would have landed on Venus in 1972 to conduct a few hours of operations before dying for good. The probe known as Cosmos 482 was ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric lander probes that launched in 1972. Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash ...

Most of it burns up in the atmosphere. But Russia's 1972 failed Venera mission probe Cosmos 482 is different. It was meant to land on Venus in 1972 at the height of the first space race.

The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it launched March 31, 1972, from a Kazakhstan spaceport, according to a NASA history. But it never escaped Earth’s gravity ...

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Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting back to its home world.

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash back on Earth. The Cosmos 482 spacecraft, believed to be a piece of a larger probe, has been ...