Two Teams Say They’ve Found The Luna 9 Moon Lander, In Different Places

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...
SETI Institute

AI Helps Pinpoint the Moon’s First Soft Landing

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...
ZME Science

The First Spacecraft to Survive a Moon Landing Vanished in 1966 and AI May Have Finally Found It

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
Hackaday

Forget Waldo. Where’s Luna 9?

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander module that used a landing bag to survive impact. The problem is, given the technology ...

OTD In Space - February 5: Apollo 14 Lands on the Moon

On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot ...
ksby

NASA awards new lunar landing contracts to Blue Origin

NASA has awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company a $3.4 billion contract to build landing modules that astronauts will use to return to the surface of the moon. The contract, announced Friday, ...