History Today: When Luna 9 became first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon
February 3, 1950, is remembered as the day the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on ...
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Odysseus Moon landing: History made as first mission since 1972 sees craft reach lunar surface
The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings. Some missions never even ... A rundown on the Moon's winners and losers: In 1966, the Soviet Union's Luna 9 successfully landed on the ...
A moon-bound spacecraft snaps footage of Earth eclipsing the sun
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
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Site of first moon landing placed on list of endangered heritage list
World Monuments Fund wants to protect heritage and artefacts left by American and Soviet space missions The site of the first Moon landing has been added to a list of endangered heritage sites ...
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A red moon: Will the next 'Sputnik Moment' be made in China?
Why being first to return to the moon matters.
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The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were convinced ... Although a lunar landing was far out of reach, the cosmonauts were ready to fly to the moon and back, a voyage ...
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Son Watched his Father Lose the Space Race. 50 Years After the Moon Landing, He Holds No Grudge
The Soviet leader was right about the importance ... then the three-man Apollos that led the step-wise progression to the first moon landing, to five more that followed, and to nine crewed lunar ...