On 21 July 1969, while Apollo 11 astronauts finished the first human moonwalk, Luna 15, a robotic Soviet spacecraft in lunar orbit at the time, began its descent to the lunar surface. …

Luna-15 was intended to be the first vehicle to collect lunar soil and bring it back to Earth. This objective was classified, and the launch was deliberately slated for three days before the US...

Feb 26, 2025 · Luna 15 was an intended lunar sample return mission. It took place at the same time as the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and was thought to be a last ditch effort by the …

The March 2025 total lunar eclipse will take place between late night on March 13 and early morning on March 14 across several time zones. In this data visualization, the Moon moves …

Apr 19, 2019 · Two hours before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were scheduled to leave the surface of the moon after their historic moonwalk, an unmanned Russian probe called Luna 15 …

Jul 4, 2019 · It was Luna 15, the Soviet mission that would reach the Moon while Apollo 11 was in orbit. The Luna program was conceived in 1955 by Sergei Korolev, the powerhouse behind …

Sep 14, 2021 · Russia secretly launched Luna 15, a robotic space mission of the Soviet space program, to the Moon's surface from lunar orbit before. This was the same time the Apollo...

Luna 15 was a robotic space mission of the Soviet Luna programme, that was in lunar orbit together with the Apollo 11 Command module Columbia.

Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace that launched on January 15, 2025, and landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 …

Jul 11, 2024 · Apollo 15 was the first of the Apollo “J” missions capable of a longer stay time on the moon and greater surface mobility. There were four primary objectives falling in the …