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 ...
February 3, 1950, is remembered as the day the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
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 ...
Why being first to return to the moon matters.
The U.S. landed men on the moon in 1969 as part of its multi-faceted Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union ... including in some cases landing people there. Today it is not an issue of ideology ...