Just as the Apollo program had, the Soviet space program experienced a major setback due to a fatality. Soyuz One had taken off on April 23, 1967, with Vladimir Komarov aboard.

The crushing blow for the Soviet lunar program wasn’t that Apollo 11 crossed the finish line first; it was that the U.S. lost interest after achieving its primary mission of beating the Soviets.

The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen ...

2001-10-30 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Vasily P. Mishin, who helped preside over the Soviet Union's failed effort to beat the United States to the moon, died Oct. 10. He was 84. Dr. Mishin became the ...

By Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

But it wasn't long before the U.S.S.R. had lost its advantage in the space race, with the July 20, 1969, lunar landing by the United States dealing a decisive blow to Soviet efforts to reach the moon.

NASA's Artemis missions are focused on the Moon's South Pole, which is suspected to contain water-ice. However, there are plenty of other space agencies that have designs on that region.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy offered to mount a manned lunar program with the Soviet Union.

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface — and by October of that year a third probe circled around and photographed the far side of the moon.