Out-of-control Soviet spacecraft CRASHES into Earth after getting stuck in orbit for 50 years on doomed Venus mission

A SOVIET-era spacecraft has crashed down to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus.

The space vessel hurtled back down in an “uncontrolled reentry”, the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed.

Anatoly Zak/RussianSpaceWeb.comA failed Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 has arrived back at Earth[/caption] SWNSThe spacecraft hurtled ‘uncontrolled’ into Earth’s atmosphere[/caption]

The European Space Agency debris office agreed that the spacecraft had reentered ...