Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the dense layers of the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation that runs the space program. Designed to land on the surface of Venus, Kosmos-482 may have remained…