A Russian mission to the moon ended in failure as the spacecraft crash-landed on the lunar surface, the nation’s space agency announced Sunday. The Luna-25 craft was attempting to make mankind’s first ...
Russia is no longer content with short lunar flybys or one-off landers. Its space agency now wants to anchor a permanent foothold on the Moon by building a nuclear power plant capable of riding out ...
Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...
The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's new temporary administrator on Thursday held a rare face-to-face meeting in Florida with Russia's space agency chief, where they discussed cooperation on the moon and ...
The Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has signed a contract to carry out work until 2036. Aimed at creating a lunar power plant ...
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...