This was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
- Mariner 1
- Pioneer 4
- Venera 3
- Zond 3
Daily Quiz for June 30, 2016
This was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
This was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
Venera 3. Venera is the Russian word for Venus. In the 1960s the USSR launched a number of space-probes to Venus. Venera 3 was designed to make a soft-landing, but instead crashed on March 1, 1966.