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| Soviet space exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center in 1993. |
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| Lunokhod was a rover sent to the moon and remotely controlled on the ground. The first successfully landed in 1970. |
| Venera. These craft survived the 900 degree F and high pressure atmosphere of Venus. The Russians were the first to land on Venus and still the only nation to return color pictures of the surface. |
| In 1988, the then Soviet Union sent two craft to Mars called Phobos 1 &2. Unfortunately, they both failed upon reaching Mars. They were equiped with a tiny lander that would have touched down and hopped around on the low gravity of Phobos a moon of Mars. |
| Unlike the United States, the Russians did send a spacecraft to Halley's Comet in 1986. Called Vega 1 & 2, they studied Venus on their way to the comet. |