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The Soviet crewed lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program.The Soviet government publicly denied participating in such a competition, but secretly pursued two programs in the 1960s: crewed lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a ...
China's Chang'e 4 was the first mission to soft land on the far side of the Moon. India's Chandrayaan-3 (2023) became the first lunar mission to achieve a soft landing near the lunar south pole. In 2018 the far side of the Moon was for the first time landed on by the Chang'e 4 mission at the Aitken basin on 3 January 2019 and deployed the Yutu ...
The Luna 9 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet Union, performed the first successful soft Moon landing on 3 February 1966. Airbags protected its 99-kilogram (218 lb) ejectable capsule which survived an impact speed of over 15 metres per second (54 km/h; 34 mph). [47] Luna 13 duplicated this feat with a similar Moon landing on 24 December 1966 ...
Russia launched Luna 25, its first lunar lander in 47 years, to explore resources at the moon’s south pole.
First soft landing on the far side of the Moon, lunar rover. Beresheet Israel: 11 April 2019: Israeli lunar lander crash landed on the Moon. Chandrayaan-2 India: 8 September 2019: First attempt to land near the Moon's south pole; lost contact at 2.1 km and crashed. Chang'e 5 China: 1 December 2020
A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The launch from ...
Surveyor 3 on the Moon. The first image returned by Luna 3 showed the far side of the Moon. This is a list of robotic space probes that have flown by, impacted, orbited or landed on the Moon for the purpose of lunar exploration, as well as probes launched toward the Moon that failed to reach their target.
In the 1980s, both America and Russia build small manned bases on the moon. By the 1990s, American and Russian space programs are competing not only with each other but with private space tourism ...