Richard PennerIs the 1977 two-part episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" called "Death Probe" based on the failed Soviet Venera mission in 1972? Then, in an example of life imitating art (or physics being physics) that failed probe also returned to Earth in May 2025, largely intact due to its engineering to survive descent to the surface of Venus.
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