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The Venera 7 and 8 landings had demonstrated that the Venusian heat portends a brutally short life for any craft that descends to the surface. Despite its beauty in the sky, Venus was now known to be a cruel, scorching, and punishing place upon which a probe would function for only about an hour. In spite of these formidable obstacles, Soviet space officials and scientists were eager to land complex analytical laboratories to perform extensive chemical and geological studies on this challenging planet. To do this, Babakin scrapped the MV-style Venera and struck out toward Venus with a completely new spacecraft which would send back torrents of revealing data.
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Interview with Valery Timofeev, Lavochkin Association, conducted at Ft. Worth, Texas, August 31, 1991.
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Reeves, R. (1994). Routine Science on Venus. In: The Superpower Space Race. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5986-7_8
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