In just the next five years, we can expect at least a dozen lunar missions that ... landed men on the moon in 1969 as part of its multi-faceted Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union.

Two landers owned by US and Japanese companies to carry out separate tests on the Moon's surface.

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

World Monuments Fund wants to protect heritage and artefacts left by American and Soviet space missions The site of the first Moon landing has been added to a list of endangered heritage sites ...

That mission will take a low-energy path to the moon, with a landing planned in the ... India is bidding to join Russia (and the former Soviet Union), the United States and China as having ...

They are the latest in a growing number of commercial missions to the ... outfit to put a lander on the Moon, a feat only previously accomplished by the US, the Soviet Union, China, India and ...

Understanding the Moon's History With Chang'e-5 Sample Feb. 6, 2024 — China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The ...

Only five countries have successfully placed spacecraft on the moon since the 1960s: the former Soviet Union, the U.S., China ... "we’re sending a lot of science and a lot of technology ahead of time ...

Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024 ... is bidding to join Russia (and the former Soviet Union), the United States and China as having ...