Venus is a "Russian planet" and the Kremlin is sending probes to find aliens on its 465C surface, the Russian space chief has said.
Dmitri Rogozin, head of Roscosmos space agency, announced the plans after British and American scientists found possible signs of life in the planet's clouds.
He said: "We believe that Venus is a Russian planet."Our country was the first and only one to successfully land on Venus."The spacecraft gathered information about the planet – it is like hell over there."He added probes will be sent to Venus “without involving wide international cooperation" at the 2020 HeliRussia exhibition.
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