Conspiracy theories claiming the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax have caught traction, pointing out minor inconsistencies in ...

The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years. A rundown on the moon’s winners and losers: The ...

In February 1966, the Soviets announced at a press conference the first robotic soft landing on the moon, by Luna 9. At the time, Soviet achievements in space appeared to outpace the American program.

Kennedy’s challenge to land a man on the moon in 1969 a reality ... Others were inspired by a patriotic duty to beat the Soviet Union. Some saw the new space program as a chance to fight ...

Landing on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The Soviet Union and the US racked up a string of successful moon landings in the 1960s and 70s, before putting touchdowns on pause.

July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them ... 11 astronauts tomorrow on history's first moon landing expedition.Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins ...

More Soviet wins followed, including the first soft, or at least survivable, landing (Luna 9 ... that snapped ever-closer pictures of the moon and radioed them back to Earth before smashing ...

The former Soviet Union and the United States carried out successful unmanned lunar landings in 1966 as national projects. China did so in 2013. One hurdle is the moon's gravity, which is weaker ...

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