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dreamer420
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<p>Good day,</p><p>I'm a long time visitor to space.com and posting on here for the first time right now. I had a thought the other day when reading an article on Venus that I would like to share and get others thoughts on.</p><p>Starting in 1961 Russia was lauching probes fast and furiously towards Venus. This continued into the early 80's and while a lot of good scientific data was returned, a lot of probes failed for various reasons too. To me it seems like Russia put all their eggs into one basket with so many probes going to just one body in the Solar System. I know they have explored elsewhere, however there was definitely something drawing them back to Venus so many times. My question is; was Russia looking into a manned mission to Venus until they realized conditions there wouldn't allow it, or where they just that facinated with the planet? Were they sensing that they were going to lose the moon race and decided to try and do the American's one better by venturing to another planet? If anyone has any theories I'd love to hear because I have several; from perfectly normal explainations to geez, whats he been smoking.</p><p> Thanks</p>