Surviving Venus in the 1970s

These probes were pretty damn cool right? (Well technically they were very hot...) - Shoutout to Incogni for supporting this vid, check them out here: incogni.com/primalspace

I'm always happy when the Soviet Venera program gets brought up in a space fairing discussion, Soviet achievements outside of Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik are so underrated and unknown to many people, and this goes to show the prowess that was the Soviet Space program, cheers to all engineers who made it happen!

American were the first on the moon,but Soviets were the first to ever to land on a outside world.

These soviet engineers had some of the craftiest solutions I've ever heard of. Building a landing craft that survives those conditions is astonishing.

As an engineer, I simply love the chord idea. The simplest possible solution that couldn't fail because of sheer simplicity

That parachute design is pure genius. No fancy sensor-controlled deployment and no variable thrusters, just a ring that would melt as soon as atmosphere gets hot enough. WOW

Venera is an amazing achievement, can't believe we did it back in the 70s! Wish we would give Venus more attention and hopefully even a rover in the future!

Man these venera missions are the coolest space missions to me. First of all, the fact that i can say space mission and not mean a piece of science fiction is genuinly amazing. And secondly, i just love the story of some crazy russian scientists on a mission to find the secrets of an almost completely unexplored planet, failing at first, realizing it's gonna be a hell of a fight and then innovating on their design to finally conquer it AND send really beautiful pictures back. And the audio clip just gets to me. I mean sounds from another planet!? There's just something so cool and mysterious about it that i could listen to it for hours. And the synced animation in the video is just a beautiful cherry on top.

Seeing and hearing the surface of another planet is definitely one of humanities greatest achievements. God bless those little venera probes and the wonderful engineers who made them

Venera was a monumental achievement that is often overlooked. Sending a probe to land on and take photos of a planet over 160 million miles away is no small feat! Thank you for sharing!

I'm impressed these probes can even send communications through that dense and (extremely) hot atmosphere!

my dad used to tell me about these, as he was growing up in comunist cuba during the 70's and 80's in the military he was used to hearing about every space missiong that was sent, it was a novelty that he enjoyed preatty much, today i showed up this video today and he was facinated, the 3D animations help him alot to visualize the landings, also he never heard the audio of the missions, thanks for doing this vid, it was something that reminded him even at his old age about something that passionated him for so long. 😮‍💨

The Venera Project should gain as much recognition worldwide as other well-known projects related to space. I had no idea about the project until this informative video; perhaps I can even say it's better than NASA projects. Thanks for the video.

It still gives me chills that we landed on an another planet in the 70s! I think the space industry is one of those industries where even the rival countries at that time cooperated with each other for the collective curiosity and explorative minds of humans. And that's what I like about these space expedition missions. It transcends geographical boundaries and rivalries.

Soviet Venera program was so interesting. Much respect from USA

I think the Venera space probes marked an important point in our history. It demonstrated our capabilities of building machines which could survive such extreme conditions and send scientific data which helped us understand venetian atmosphere,Venera missions will always be one of my favourite space missions ever undertaken. Props to all the scientists who worked on it...

The Venera is absolutely mind boggling to me because of the fact that technology back then in the 70s we're enough to sustain the 500°C Temperatures and to take pictures & audio!

I think my favorite funny story of the Venera probes are how unlucky they got with the lens caps. The Venera 9 lander operated for 53 minutes and took pictures with one of two cameras; the other lens cap did not release. The Venera 10 lander operated for 65 minutes and took pictures with one of two cameras; the other lens cap did not release. The Venera 11 lander operated 95 minutes but neither cameras' lens caps released. The Venera 12 lander operated for 110 minutes but neither cameras' lens caps released. The Venera 14 had the misfortune of ejecting the camera lens cap directly under the surface compressibility tester arm, and returned information for the compressibility of the lens cap rather than the surface.

That looks so much like my Eve landing attempts. Jokes aside, what the Soviet Union did back then is amazing. That was cutting edge of space technologies, because space is not supposed to be 500C and super thick. So hats off to all the people who participated in this program. And let's hope we can repeat it one day. Also, the Venera missions managed to triangulate a GRB for a first time. Which was pretty cool!

I'm always amazed by how extreme the environment of Venus is and that the soviets actually managed to send probes there.