Soviet-era spacecraft from aborted Venus mission due to crash to Earth next week
The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions.
Kosmos 482, weighing 500kg, was meant to land on Venus in the 1970s but it never made it out of orbit because of a rocket malfunction
A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is exp…