[WorkingClassFilth]

Thanks! Seems as though the Soviets were sending stuff up just to have a footnote in history.

[NormsRevenge]

I don’t know where they got the ruples to... Mars is a tough shot any way ya cut it. The Brits and Beagle mission come to mind too.

[FrogBurger]

The Soviet also managed to land probes on Venus and return pictures (some in color) from the surface — quite a feat. God knows I have little tenderness for the Soviets, but you got to admit that their spacecraft engineers had spunk. To bad they served a monstrous system.

http://www.molossia.org/pictures/venera14_1.jpg

Look up the Venera probes’ history.