Comment Re:Meanwhile, back in America (Score 1) 284
It still amazes me they went from 'first thing from earth to crash into the moon' in 1959, to a soft landing in 1966, or soft landings with transmissions from venus in 1970.
The fact that anything could land on venus and transmit home for an hour is pretty amazing, really. Atmospheric pressure is something like 92 atm, temperature is 450C, it's all CO2 with clouds of sulphuric acid... incredible anything survives that, and radios home!