{"id":1432,"date":"2026-12-15T00:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-12-15T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:33:28","slug":"vega-i-was-launched-by-the-soviet-union-in-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Vega I Was Launched by the Soviet Union in 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Vega I<\/em> was launched by the Soviet Union in 1984<\/strong>. It dropped scientific balloons into the atmosphere of Venus on June 11, 1985, and then made contact with Halley\u2019s Comet in March of 1986. It took many images of the comet and studied the comet\u2019s nucleus and coma. Now <em>Vega I<\/em> circles the sun. Older children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1984-125A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vega I<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vega I was launched by the Soviet Union in 1984. It dropped scientific balloons into the atmosphere of Venus on June 11, 1985, and then made contact with Halley\u2019s Comet in March of 1986. It took many images of the comet and studied the comet\u2019s nucleus and coma. Now Vega I circles the sun. Older <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1432' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4516,71,2505,323,4515,1879],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4516","tag-december-15","tag-halleys-comet","tag-soviet-union","tag-vega-i","tag-venus","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21569,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/21569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}