Soviets on Venus

by Thomas Simmons

Soviets on Venus explores a remote jeweled casket. It construes an alien neighbor as it reconceptualizes an underrated scientific breakthrough: the series of unnamed probes piloted to Venus by the USSR between 1961 and the mid-80's. The missions were called the Venera program. These fantastical spacecraft transmitted data, vivid photographs, and poetic energy back to Earth. Some piloted through the morning star's magma-hot, swampy atmosphere as balloons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C6Q6B76F
• ISBN13: 9798888382172
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"