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'''''Venera 1''''' ({{langx|ru|Венера-1}} meaning ''Venus 1''), also known as '''Venera-1VA No.2''' and occasionally in the West as '''''Sputnik 8''''', was the first spacecraft to perform an [[interplanetary flight]] and the first to fly past [[Venus]], as part of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Venera]] programme.{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-003A|title=Venera 1|website=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive|access-date=2019-08-15|archive-date=2020-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126124517/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-003A|url-status=dead}} Launched in February 1961, it was intended as an impactor, but flew past Venus on 19 May of the same year; however, radio contact with the [[Space probe|probe]] was lost before the [[Flyby (spaceflight)|flyby]], resulting in |
'''''Venera 1''''' ({{langx|ru|Венера-1}} meaning ''Venus 1''), also known as '''Venera-1VA No.2''' and occasionally in the West as '''''Sputnik 8''''', was the first spacecraft to perform an [[interplanetary flight]] and the first to fly past [[Venus]], as part of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Venera]] programme.{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-003A|title=Venera 1|website=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive|access-date=2019-08-15|archive-date=2020-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126124517/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-003A|url-status=dead}} Launched in February 1961, it was intended as an impactor, but flew past Venus on 19 May of the same year; however, radio contact with the [[Space probe|probe]] was lost before the [[Flyby (spaceflight)|flyby]], resulting in returning some data only from interplanetary space. |
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