Cream Manifesto Panel — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. Venera 9's October 1975 panoramas were the first images returned from the surface of another planet — a milestone that humanised Venus as a place with rocks and horizon rather than an abstract hell world. The mission operated alongside an orbiter that relayed data before atmospheric entry, establishing the dual-craft pattern later Mars missions would emulate. Vostok 6 made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space on 16 June 1963 — a record solo orbital flight that stood unmatched in duration among women for nearly two decades. Her mission occurred alongside Vostok 5 with Valery Bykovsky, demonstrating Soviet capacity for concurrent crewed operations.