On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that the Soviet Union put a rover on the moon and it was the 13th successful ...

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the ... Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could ...

The Luna programme is one of the most successful programmes in space exploration. It included a series of robotic spacecraft missions that were aimed at the moon by the Soviet Union in the period ...