The Soviet spaceship ends up on earth after half a century trip

After 53 years by space, an independent Soviet spaceship called Kosmos-482 returned to earth and resigned on Saturday at 9:24 a.m. Moscow in the dense layers of the atmosphere of the planet, the Russian State Corporation, which is headed by the space program.

Kosmos-482 was designed for the country on the surface of Venus and could have remained intact during its jump. It splashed in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, said Roscosmos.

Kosmos-482 was introduced on March 31, 1972, but was stranded in the orbit after one of its rocket booster was closed prematurely. The return of the spacecraft to Earth was a memory of the competition of the Cold War, the science fiction-like visions of earth-bound people, which stood out in the solar system.

“It remembers a time when the Soviet Union was adventurous in space – when we were all perhaps more adventurous,” said Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for astrophysics, which were started in Orbit. “In this sense, it's a bitter sweet moment.”

While America had won the race to the moon, the Soviet Union kept Venus in the sights of Venus, the twisted sister of the earth.