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Scientist Pavel Shubin, engaged in, among other things, history astronautics, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the mysterious Soviet station “Venera-9” in the coming years will fall on The earth.
As you know, in the USSR on March 27, 1972 the station was launched “Venus-8”, which, as planned, safely reached the second from the sun of the planet and landed there. But few knows that on March 31 of that year, a launch was launched after her another twin station, Venera-9. But due to a failure in her the engine failed, and the unit with the booster block got stuck on orbit the earth.
So he still hangs there, and under the name “Cosmos-482” because the Soviet Union, not to be recognized failure, immediately announced the launch of an orbiting satellite with such by name.
According to Pavel Shubin, the mythical “Venus-9” will fall on Earth in the coming years is approximately between 52 degrees north and south latitude. This device is curious, according to the scientist, from many points of view: from scientific, archaeological, historical and so on. For example, it will be interesting to see how such long space flight to the materials of which it is made lander, not to mention many other aspects.
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