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  2. Apr 16, 2020 · In fact, the Soviet Union had already beaten the United States to the moon with its series of Luna probes. Luna 1 performed the first flyby of the moon in January 1959, and later in...

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  3. Jul 11, 2019 · After the U.S. reached the moon on July 20, 1969, the Soviet Union continued its lunar-landing program into the early ‘70s while still publicly denying its existence. Did the US Go to the...

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  4. The Soviet crewed lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program.

  5. Nov 9, 2020 · The truth is no one element completely doomed the Soviet Union's lunar program. The Kremlin’s resting on its laurels after winning the race into Earth’s orbit with Sputnik...

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  6. Aug 23, 2014 · There was much more information published on Soviet missions, like Luna 15. Did the Soviet citizens know it was happening at the time? Soviet people were surely informed about it. Newspapers published articles on Moon landing, reports were broadcasted on TV and radio. Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin were widely known in Soviet Union.

  7. Jul 8, 2019 · As the world marks the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind,” we take a look back at the Soviet Union’s own efforts to land a man on the moon – and what went wrong.

  8. Jul 3, 2013 · The Soviet Lunar program had 20 successful missions to the Moon and achieved a number of notable lunar "firsts": first probe to impact the Moon, first flyby and image of the lunar farside, first soft landing, first lunar orbiter, and the first circumlunar probe to return to Earth.