The launch of Russia's Luna 25 lunar lander, originally scheduled for October 1 of this year, has been postponed to May of next year. Consequently, Russia's space development plan, which declared the ...

The recent news that Russia’s Luna 25 Moon lander had made an unexpected lithobraking detour into the Moon’s surface, rather than the expected soft touchdown was met by a variety of responses, ranging ...

Beginning with Luna 1's launch in 1959, the Soviet Luna program set several milestones in space exploration. Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to fly past the Moon, while Luna 2 was the first to impact ...