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 ...

The biggest moon landings in the world. ... with its Chang'e-3 mission representing "the first soft landing on the moon in nearly 40 years," since the Soviet Union last did it in 1976, ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years. A rundown on the moon’s winners and losers: First victories. The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the ...

Japan has joined an elite club by landing on the moon. Here’s what others are doing. Japan landed a spacecraft on the moon Saturday, ... the Soviet Union, India and China.

Luna-25 was Russia's first lunar landing since the uncrewed Soviet Luna-24 in 1976. That mission delivered about six ounces of lunar soil to Earth. Who else is heading to the moon's south pole?

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. ... The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the moon in 1966, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Landing spacecraft on the moon has seen both successes and failures. The Soviet Union and the U.S. achieved early robotic landings in the 1960s, with the U.S ...