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  1. www.wired.com › 2010 › 10Inside the Soviets' Secret Failed Moon Program | WIRED

    Oct 15, 2010 · By Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik. The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a ...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Soviet_crewed_lunar_programsSoviet crewed lunar programs - Wikipedia

    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.The Soviet government publicly denied participating in such a competition, but secretly pursued two programs in the 1960s: crewed lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a crewed lunar landing using Soyuz 7K-LOK and LK spacecraft launched with the N1 rocket.

  3. www.popularmechanics.com › space › moon-mars50 Years Later, the Soviet Union’s Luna Program Gets a Reboot

    Jul 18, 2021 · Soviet secrecy covered up 21 failed robotic launches directed at the moon—meaning Luna 24 was ... The crushing blow for the Soviet lunar program wasn’t that Apollo 11 crossed the finish line ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Luna_programmeLuna programme - Wikipedia

    Proton-K / D-1. Soyuz 2.1b. The Luna programme (from the Russian word Луна "Luna" meaning "Moon"), occasionally called Lunik by western media, [1] was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. The programme accomplished many firsts in space exploration, including first flyby of the ...

    Public Name
    Internal Name
    Mission
    Launch Date
    Luna 1
    E-1 No.4
    Impactor
    2 January 1959
    Luna 2
    E-1A No.2
    Impactor
    12 September 1959
    Luna 3
    E-2A No.1
    Flyby
    4 October 1959
    Luna 4
    E-6 No.4
    Lander
    2 April 1963

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  5. www.history.com › news › space-race-soviet-unionThe Soviet Response to the Moon Landing? Denial There Was a ...

    Jul 11, 2019 · Or at least, that’s what the Soviets claimed to cover up their unsuccessful lunar-landing program. It was a lie that held fast until 1989, when a group of American aerospace engineers went to ...

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  6. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov › planetary › lunarSoviet Missions to the Moon - NSSDCA

    Jul 3, 2013 · The image at the top of the page is the first image of the far side of the Moon, taken by the Luna 3 spacecraft in October, 1959. 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.

  7. ocw.mit.edu › courses › sts-471j-engineering-apolloTHE SOVIET MANNED LUNAR PROGRAM - MIT OpenCourseWare

    unsuitable for lunar missions due to high G-forces during atmospheric reentry. Although the future course of the Soviet space program was unclear when the Soyuz was conceived in 1959-62 (space stations, lunar missions or even a manned flight around Mars were considered), it was generally agreed on that rendezvous & docking would play a major role.