Rank 9 documents Venera 7 — the Lavochkin lander that on 15 December 1970 became the first spacecraft to transmit data from the surface of another planet, surviving Venus's crushing atmosphere and furnace heat long enough to prove soft landing was possible beyond the Moon. Descending on parachute through opaque sulfuric cloud layers, the sphere bus endured roughly 475 °C and pressures that would crush submarines before its weak signal reached Earth — a triumph of Soviet planetary engineering under Georgi Babakin's bureau. The plate's linocut-band layout, orange Venus cloud drama, and museum-border frame capture International Space constructivist grammar — symmetric icon lander, linocut woodblock craft, specimen-plate text embodiment. Curator copy ties Venera 7 to the Luna program's lunar firsts and the later Venera 9 imaging triumph.