Soviet Lunar Program News Today

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had a fierce technological rivalry as they entered the unknown. In the race to conquer space, who truly soared to greater heights? Did the stars and stripes outshine the hammer and sickle, or vice versa? Which country contributed to the development of rocket technology,

An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow's once-proud space program. The destruction of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Yuri Borisov, the head of the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos, attributed the failu...

“It raises doubts about Russia’s claims of a great power status in the eyes of the global community."