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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

The film takes place in the 1960s during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. ... To be clear, Opération Lune never claims the Moon landing didn’t occur.

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 ...

After the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, our last manned moon mission, there were a few unmanned probes from the U.S. and Soviet Union, and several landings by the Soviet Union.

The private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" has seemingly been destroyed in a "hard landing" on the moon on Thursday. The lander was carrying what would have been the first European-built rover to ...

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, ...

Moon Buggy Apollo 17 mission Commander Eugene Cernan checks out the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in December 1972. LRVs, also called moon buggies, are electric ...

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 ...

The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the moon in 1966, after its predecessors crash or miss the moon altogether. The U.S. follows four months later with Surveyor 1.