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The secret Soviet mission that tricked the world into a fake moon landing

The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the entire planet. The more closely I look at the historical record, the clearer a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
PBS

The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race

"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...
AOL

Russian moon mission ends in disastrous crash

A Russian mission to the moon ended in failure as the spacecraft crash-landed on the lunar surface, the nation’s space agency announced Sunday. The Luna-25 craft was attempting to make mankind’s first ...
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In 1968, the Soviet Union Orbited Turtles Around the Moon

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...
The New York Times

Russian Launch Site Mishap Shows Perilous State of Storied Space Program

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...