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Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
The New York Times ^ | May 10, 2025 | Updated 1:34 p.m. ET | Nadia Drake

Posted on 05/10/2025 5:17:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: BobL

The Venera program: Interplanetary probes from behind the Iron Curtain

The top image is actually a composite of photos taken of the surface of Venus. As you can discover from the Astronomy Magazine article the Soviet Union spent a lot of time and effort exploring Venus.

41 posted on 05/11/2025 5:14:08 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: ansel12

The redneck finally got the got! He has been a jerk for as long as he was here.


42 posted on 05/11/2025 7:21:43 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: subterfuge

Got the ZOT!


43 posted on 05/11/2025 7:22:17 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Nateman

I think his flame war partners and fellow flame war, raging types, are not so happy about him being gone.


44 posted on 05/11/2025 7:29:05 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: BobL

Good point! 😁


45 posted on 05/11/2025 7:32:34 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Dead Like Me" was fun turn of the century series that started with space junk falling from the sky.

But shut up about it or the industry will try to remake or reboot it.

46 posted on 05/11/2025 7:33:56 AM PDT by x
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To: WoofDog123

and that makes him a fool


47 posted on 05/11/2025 11:15:07 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

he is usually quite focused. this seems to be a one-off.


48 posted on 05/11/2025 6:41:37 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: gnarledmaw

That sounds very interesting!


49 posted on 05/12/2025 1:25:45 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: Moleman

I dont want to mislead you so just in case you decide to pop over...

Online they tend to make it look like a huge event, its actually rather small. If youre interested in art (it came down right in front of what is now the Rahr-West Museum), and watching costume contests in a beer garden you certainly could spend a day but otherwise you might want to plan something along with it for that weekend.

There are a couple of nearby art galleries and museums. A maritime museum with optional tours of a WWII sub and a memorial reflecting for each of those subs. Which came back, which didnt and a brief note about their activity or the way they were lost. There are a couple of more unusual things to see like a museum dedicated to the movable wood type press. Of course there are all the typical Great Lakes opportunities like you have including charter fishing and great beaches. If you drive over via the ferry from Ludington then Whistling Straights is just 20 or so miles away if golf is your kind of thing.


50 posted on 05/12/2025 7:48:20 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (If you dont like my sense of humor, please let me know so I can laugh at you too.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Thank you!!


51 posted on 05/13/2025 2:06:55 PM PDT by Moleman
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