In August 2023, Russia launched its first moon mission in nearly 50 years, sending its Luna-25 lander to the moon. While Luna-25 did make it there, it smashed into the lunar surface upon arrival.
The apparatus entered a near-lunar orbit on August 16, and on August 21 it is expected to make a soft landing on the surface of the Moon. The Luna-25’s primary mission is to test soft landing ...
For only the second time in history, a private company’s lunar lander has successfully touched down on the moon—and the images it’s sent home are stunning. Built by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, the ...
According to Yury Borisov, despite what happened with the Luna-25 mission, experts managed to ... entered near-lunar orbit on Wednesday, August 16, and was scheduled to land on the surface of ...