{"id":484,"date":"2010-08-17T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=484"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:16:56","slug":"venus-lander-launched-four-decades-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/venus-lander-launched-four-decades-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Lander Launched, Four Decades Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today &#8212; August 17, 1970 &#8212; the USSR launched the Venera-7 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/image\/venera_7_capsule.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Venera-7 capsule. 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