Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candidates for Luna 9's landing site. Credit: Pinault et al. While the United States beat the USSR to landing a human on the moon ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.

Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | ...

Currently, the life support systems of the PTK NP spacecraft are awaiting interdepartmental tests, Alexander Tsygankov added MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Life support systems for the Russian lunar ...

In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a ...