1961

1. 1961-02-12 launch

   Venera — launch

   Category: Launches and Flight Tests › Type: Orbital launch

   Mission: Venera

   • Space transportation

   Venera 1, also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8, was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union's Venera programme.