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\<COLOUR 1> SPACECRAFT: \<COLOUR 0> Venera 1
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> February 12, 1961
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH VEHICLE: \<COLOUR 0> A-2e (Molniya)
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> WEIGHT: \<COLOUR 0> 644 kg
\<COLOUR 1> MISSION: \<COLOUR 0> Venus flyby
\<COLOUR 1> CLOSEST APPROACH: \<COLOUR 0> 100,0000 km, May 20, 1961
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> First probe launched to Venus, but communications fail two weeks after launch when 23 million km from Earth.