This was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
- Mariner 1
- Pioneer 4
- Venera 3
- Zond 3
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.