The Spacecraft that survived only for 1 second on Venus Here is the story of a spacecraft that survived just for one second in the hot, hellish world of Venus. Venera 7 was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth #nasa#space #venus | Secrets of Space