[FPSPACE] 35th Anniversary, First Space Rendezvous

[Larry Klaes]

Speaking of anniversaries, today is the thirtieth anniversary
of the first successful landing on another planet by a space
probe, namely Venera 7 on Venus in 1970:

Some relevant Web sites on Venera 7:

http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/venera7_000817.html

http://www.friends-partners.org/~mwade/project/venera.htm

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1970-060A.html

http://vsm.host.ru/e_venera.htm

http://sunra.colorado.edu:80/david/ch3.html

http://www.seds.org/pub/info/newsletters/ejasa/1993/jasa9302.txt

This article from Sven Grahn includes the sounds 
of the companion probe to Venera 7 that did not make
it out of Earth orbit and was called Cosmos 359.
I always find it to be a haunting piece:

http://www.users.wineasy.se/svengrahn/trackind/Kosm359/Kosm359.htm

Larry


At 11:04 AM 12/15/2000 EST, JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

>
>A simple anniversary: 35-years ago today on December 15, 1965 Gemini 6 & 7
>took part in the first rendezvous in space. To the men and women who
designed 
>and controlled it, and to the astronauts who flew it -- Wally and Tom --
well 
>done! Let us all lift a glass (and maybe rendezvous with friends and 
>colleagues to celebrate).
>
>Jim Oberg, lifelong rendezvous geek
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