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 ...

On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample return mission sent to retrieve some lunar soil and bring it back to Earth.

Luna-25 was hoped to be a major space milestone for Russia. The last moon probe from the country was Luna-24 in 1976, when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union.

All the latest breaking news on Soviet union. ... Top Russian rocket scientist hospitalized after Luna-25 moon mission crash. ... By Isabel van Brugen On 8/21/23 at 8:29 AM EDT.

The last Luna program mission happened in 1976, with not only the fall of the Soviet Union throwing a spanner in the works since then, but also a few generations of new engineers earning their ...

The Soviet Union's last deep space mission, Phobos 2, launched in 1988. Phobos 2 entered orbit around Mars, but ground teams lost contact with the spacecraft as it approached its moon, Phobos.