CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.

The samples brought home from the Moon in the 1970s by the Apollo missions and the Soviet Union’s Luna missions cleared up quite a lot about the Moon’s history. Because the lunar samples ...

A rundown on the moon’s winners and losers: The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches ... Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the program ends with Apollo ...

the first moon mission in modern Russian history. (The most recent moon effort had been Luna 24, launched by the Soviet Union in 1976.) Roscosmos "also faced corruption scandals, the loss of ...