The last successful interplanetary mission for the program was in 1988 when Russia was still the Soviet Union.

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Then, there is the LIFE biomodule, which we piggybacked in the Grunt mission simply to get it into interplanetary space for as long as possible, 34 months in the case of this mission.

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