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During the 1970s, scientists on both sides of the Atlantic began to consider a new generation of deep space missions that would advance our knowledge of the primitive planetary building blocks known as comets.
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In the Russian language there is no ‘H’ so their full name was Venera-Gallei, meaning Venus-Halley.
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Bond, P. (2020). Beginnings. In: Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60720-3_2
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