A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe landed there to collect samples in August 1976. But SpaceX is ...

Before the Stonehouse antenna listened to Soviet probes ... so when Luna 6 missed by 100,000 miles, the only explanation was that the spacecraft carried enough extra fuel for a retro-rocket ...

His ballistic trajectory during the 15-minute flight takes ... they could be recovered. March 31: Luna 10 launches from the Soviet Union. The unmanned probe will achieve lunar orbit -- the first ...