Long-Lost Soviet Spacecraft Kosmos 482 Ends Epic Journey With Fiery Homecoming

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482, which has been in orbit longer than any other spacecraft, has at last returned to Earth. The 1972-launched Kosmos 482, one of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program of spacecraft to explore Venus, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and landed in the India...