The Space Race was the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve superior space travel technology, which eventually culminated in the first manned Moon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candidates for Luna 9's landing site. Credit: Pinault et al. While the United States beat the USSR to landing a human on the moon ...

Sixty years after Luna 9 touched down on the Moon, the first humanmade object to soft-land there is still missing in plain sight. Soviet reports, including coordinates printed in Pravda, fixed the ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

While NASA's Apollo 11 mission is still remembered today for putting a man on the Moon in 1969, the Soviet Union put humanity's first uncrewed spacecraft on lunar soil three years earlier. A ...

On March 18, 1965, the Soviet spacecraft Voshkod-2 launched with two cosmonauts on board, Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev. They had the important mission of accomplishing mankind’s first spacewalk ...

Chernobyl was an awfully nice place to be half a century or so ago. Named after the wormwood herb that grew wild there, the town had a modest population, a river that ran clear, and open land for ...