Sixty years on, humanity's first touch of another planet marks an unlikely milestone Sixty years after Venera 3 impacted Venus in 1966, the Soviet mission's legacy reveals how failure can establish precedent. Contact was lost, but the craft reached.

Sixty years on, humanity's first touch of another planet marks an unlikely milestone

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