Nedelin, the head of Soviet rocket forces. The accident is officially ... February 1969 – The Soviet Union’s N1 Moon booster explodes during its first test flight, killing 91 people on the ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket ... on the Moon, a feat only previously accomplished by the US, the Soviet Union, China ...

Blue Origin will launch its first suborbital rocket launch of 2025 today — and attempt a wild spin trick to mimic the moon's gravity during the flight — but if you want to see it live ...

NASA / Frank Michaux A SpaceX rocket carrying two ... that has landed humans on the moon, but five countries have achieved robotic lunar landings: the former Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India ...

Two private missions heading for the moon have blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar landers ... successfully since the 1960s, the former Soviet Union, America, Japan, India and ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander, a spacecraft commissioned by NASA, enjoys its SpaceX ride before the rocket releases it into space. Credit: SpaceX / Firefly Aerospace On its 100th ...

One rocket, two missions ... Until recently, soft landings on the moon were achieved only by a handful of well-funded national space agencies, starting with the Soviet Union in 1966.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...