In this episode, we uncover the extraordinary, forgotten story of the Soviet Union’s Venera missions — the first human-made machines to land on another planet and transmit data back to Earth.Built like deep-sea leviathans, hurled into the crushing inferno of Venus, these landers survived where no others dared, revealing a world of unimaginable heat, pressure, and devastation.Overshadowed by the Moon race, lost to Cold War secrecy, the triumph of Venera remains one of history’s greatest — and least understood — space victories.Join us as we explore the brutal engineering, political rivalries, and ghostly relics still lying silent on the Hell Planet today.

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