National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal ...

It’s just implausible.” Conspiracy theories about the moon landing were not popular in the Soviet Union during the time of the space race, the competition between the Cold War rivals to ...

While Tass set no target date for a Russian manned moon landing, the agency predicted Soviet spacemen would be flying to planets by 1976. The Soviets must first complete successful space docking ...

During the 1950s the possibility of landing a spacecraft on the Moon’s surface was investigated and attempted by both the US and USSR. This resulted in a number of lunar lander missions in the 1 ...

This landing was an instrumental landmark in the space race of the 1950s and '60s between the USSR and the U.S. While Luna 2 was the first to make contact with the moon, Luna 9 was the "first ...

Previous polling revealed that just under half of Russians believe America's 1969 moon landing was a government hoax. However, Borisov said that tests performed on the samples by the Russian ...

The Russian mission was in a race with the recently-launched Indian mission Chandrayaan-3, which also aims to land on the moon’s south pole. The Indian mission is expected to make a landing ...

Japan has joined an elite club by landing on the moon. Here’s what others are ... occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China. Here’s a look at high-profile recent ...

Only three governments have managed successful moon landings: the Soviet Union, the United States and China. India and Russia are aiming to be the first to land at the moon’s south pole.

Credit: USSR space agency Each will try to put a ... Though 60 years have passed since the first non-human moon landings, touching down safely remains a daunting task, with less than half of ...