Delivered to the Moon's orbit by Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 on November ... By today's standards, the rover was not pretty, resembling a sturdy metal bathtub attached to eight hamster wheels.

(The Soviet Union had sent a remotely controlled rover to the moon, Lunokhod 1, in 1970.) After the dramatic accomplishments of the 1960s and 1970s, the major space agencies turned their attention ...

India's moon rover confirmed the presence of sulfur and ... India last week joined the United States, the Soviet Union and China as only the fourth country to achieve the milestone.

"The rover completes its assignments ... of the long break in lunar research that followed the last Soviet mission to the moon in 1976. Active since the 1960s, India has launched satellites ...

Prior to its 2023 launch, the six-wheeled lander and rover module of ... been analyzed at the moon’s equatorial region during NASA's Apollo missions and the Soviet Union's Luna missions in ...

After India’s successful mission of landing the rover on the moon last week, it became the fourth country after the United States, the Soviet Union and China to hit this goal. The Associated ...

India's moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar ... India last week joined the United States, the Soviet Union and China as only the fourth country to achieve this milestone.The successful ...

“The rover completes its assignments ... of the long break in lunar research that followed the last Soviet mission to the moon in 1976. Active since the 1960s, India has launched satellites ...