Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to crash back to Earth this week after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century. Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus but it never escaped low Earth orbit and separated into four pieces, according to Nasa.

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early 70s.It's orbit has since been decay