<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_program" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venera program">Venera program</a>: <i id="mw7g"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venera 1">Venera 1</a></i> becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venus">Venus</a> (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).