When Kennedy said in 1961 that "we will put a man on the Moon," he didn't know that the Russians will turn the first wheel on the Moon. And they didn't turn one - they turned eight! In the beginning, ...

Using information provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have successfully pinpointed the location of a ...

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The long lost lunar rover Lunokhod 1, has been rediscovered by astronomers using laser pulses, thirty-six years after it disappeared. A team led by Associate Professor Tom Murphy at the University of ...

Alexander Basilevsky always wanted to stop driving. As a planetary geologist working with the Soviet Union’s remotely controlled lunar rovers — Luno­khod 1 and Lunokhod 2 — in the early 1970s, ...

Richard A. Garriott has finally seen the item he bought 17 years ago for $68,500. Since the item — a Soviet moon rover on the moon — is nearly a quarter million miles away, Mr. Garriott will still not ...

THERE WAS A TIME, in the early years of the space race, when the moon seemed to be Soviet territory. The first man-made object to reach the moon was the Soviet Luna 2 probe, which struck the surface ...

Click to open image viewer. While the Americans were working to send humans to the surface of the Moon, the USSR sent a series of robotic missions to the lunar surface. The last successful series was ...

Lunokhod 1 rover in its final parking place (38.315*N, 324.992*E) on the surface of Mare Imbrium. The inset in the lower left shows an expanded view of the rover. LROC NAC image M175502049RE.

Looks like the Mars rover Opportunity has a few miles more to go before it can break the record for longest off-world driving distance of any rover from Earth. Scientists using NASA’s Lunar ...