Venus was photographed by the USSR. The craft did not last long due to intense pressure and sulfuric acid in the atmosphere
The USSR launched the Venera series to study the planet Venus, the Venera 7 probe being the first spacecraft to make a controlled landing on another planet.
The probe "Venera 7" sent by the USSR was the first. It landed on the planet Venus, in 1970 I think.
MARS 3 from the USSR was the first, if you don't count ones that crash landed. However it failed after a few seconds. So the "real" first is reckoned to be Viking 1 of the USA.
Mariner 2 (Nasa fly-by) Venera 2 (USSR fly-by) Venera 3 (USSR landing, destroyed in atmosphere upon landing) Venera 4 (USSR probe landing) Mariner 5 (Nasa fly-by) Venera 6 (USSR probe landing) Venera 7 (USSR probe landing) Venera 8 (USSR landing) Mariner 10 (Nasa fly-by on way to Mercury) Venera 9 (USSR orbiter and landing) Venera 10 (USSR orbiter and landing) Pioneer Venus 1 (NASA orbiter) Pioneer Venus 2 (4 separate NASA probes) Venera 12 (USSR lander and orbiter) Venera 11 (USSR lander and orbiter) Venera 13 (USSR lander and orbiter) Venera 14 (USSR lander and orbiter) Venera 15 (USSR orbiter) Vega 1 (USSR probe and Comet Halley flyby) Vega 2 (USSR probe and Comet Halley flyby ) Galileo (NASA fly-by on way to Jupiter)
It did not go to any planet. It was launched by the USSR in January 1959 and was the first rocket to the vicinity of the moon. Originally called the First Cosmic Rocket and rename Luna 1 or Mechta
Two dogs, named Belka and Strelka, were launched on a rocket by the USSR in 1959. They became the first living beings to safely return to Earth after orbiting the planet.
I myself have never reached the lunar surface. In 1959, the USSR sent the first man made object that reached the lunar surface. Ten years later, in 1969, the USA sent the first manned mission to the lunar surface.
The first object to land on the surface of Mars was the Soviet spacecraft Mars 3, which successfully landed on December 2, 1971.
Yes, Belarus was part of the initial four republics that entered into the Treaty of the Soviet Union that created the USSR. The four were Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus Federation, which was a federation of the republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Yuri Gagarin hardly ever left the earth. On April 12, 1961, he was launched from Tyuratam in the USSR, reached a peak altitude of about 203 miles above the surface, made almost (but not quite) one complete orbit of the earth, and landed 1hour 48minutes later.
The only planet on which people have walked on Earth. The only world other than Earth where people have walked is the moon, but the moon is not a planet.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union (USSR) were the two nations racing to put a man on the surface of the moon.