The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

Despite missions dating back to the 1970s, including the Soviet Luna 24 probe, the answer has been frustratingly complex. Modern sensors hint at frozen deposits, but confirming and collecting them ...

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It is the first lunar material to reach Earth since the Soviet Luna 24 mission in 1976. “This is more precious than gold dust,” said Prof Anand, who is the only UK scientist granted access to ...

Luna-25 was Russia's first lunar landing since the uncrewed Soviet Luna-24 in 1976. That mission delivered about six ounces of lunar soil to Earth. Late 2024: NASA plans to launch its Volatiles ...

The Soviet Union Luna program stands as a historical achievement ... followed by a later phase from Luna 17 to Luna 24. Fig. 1 illustrates the diamond diagram representing the actual NTCP executed by ...

China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for its vast size.

After the Soviet Luna-24 mission, there were no Moon landings until China's Chang'e 3 in 2013. All the hardware that originally took humanity to the Moon is decades old, so everything flying today ...