The mission’s name links it directly to the space missions of the Soviet Union: Luna 24, this mission’s predecessor, took place in 1976. Luna 25 is in many ways remarkably similar to Luna 24 ...

Russia's space agency successfully launched a robotic spacecraft Thursday on a journey to the Moon, the country's first lunar explorer since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976.

MOSCOW, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Russia's first moonshot in nearly half a century has failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon. Following are details about the ...

The final Soviet moon mission, Luna-24, successfully hauled home to Earth about 6 ounces (170 grams) of lunar samples in 1976. Heralded as the first domestically produced moon probe in modern ...

Though moon missions are fiendishly difficult, and many U.S. and Soviet attempts have failed, Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev ...

(Clockwise) The Soviet/Russian space programme launched the first satellite Sputnik 1, first moon mission Luna-24 returned with samples from the moon in 1976, placed the first human Yuri Gagarin ...

A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe ...

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 ...

In 1966, the USSR made a successful lunar soft landing. However, since its successful Luna 24 mission in 1976, Russia has made no attempts to return. Meanwhile, the U.S. is now gearing up for the ...

The Luna 25 mission was named in continuation of the Soviet Union’s missions of the 1970s, which ended with Luna 24 bringing samples of moon rock back to Earth in 1976. The new mission launched ...

Officials at NASA believe they have found the crash site of the Luna-25 spacecraft ... which it did two days later on Aug. 24. Imagery that NASA released on Thursday appears to show the appearance ...