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The Soviet tortoises that orbited the moon while cosmonauts trolled the CIA
In 1968, while two tortoises silently circled the moon aboard Zond 5, Soviet cosmonauts back on Earth were secretly ...
"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 ...
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The Soviet moon base that died twice, Project Zvezda and the Vulcan rocket that never launched
In 1974, the USSR unveiled its most daring lunar plan yet, a self-sufficient moon base powered by nuclear energy and buried ...
Luna 9's landing was a pivotal moment in history. Airwolfhound via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 On February 3, 1966, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 showed the world it was possible to land on ...
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.
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How did the USSR win the space race to beat the US to the moon in Apple TV's new 'Star City'?
"I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life." ...
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The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to peak May 5-6. May's full moon will arrive May 12. It will be a micromoon. Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft, is expected to fall back to Earth between May ...
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