This thread is my log of @Scarecrow71s real-world Historical Space Race challenge
My plan is to play both the Soviet and US. I am doing sandbox mode, with the focus on the craft being accurate replicas of the original craft in terms of appearance and function.
KSP Version: 1.12.2
DLC: Both (Making History and Breaking Ground)
Mods
KER
MechJeb 2
EVE
Scatterer
Trajectories
Tweakscale
Venera 4
also designated 4V-1 No.310, was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. The probe comprised a lander, designed to enter the Venusian atmosphere and parachute to the surface, and a carrier/flyby spacecraft, which carried the lander to Venus and served as a communications relay for it.
In 1967, it was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. Venera 4 provided the first chemical analysis of the Venusian