On 21 July 1969, while Apollo 11 astronauts finished the first human moonwalk, Luna 15, a robotic Soviet spacecraft in lunar orbit at the time, began its descent to the lunar surface. …

Luna-15 was intended to be the first vehicle to collect lunar soil and bring it back to Earth.

2015年5月1日 · Luna 15 was an intended lunar sample return mission. It took place at the same time as the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and was thought to be a last ditch effort by the …

2021年9月13日 · Russia secretly launched Luna 15, a robotic space mission of the Soviet space program, to the Moon's surface from lunar orbit before.

2019年7月4日 · Had Luna 15 succeeded in its sample return mission, it still wouldn’t have overshadowed Apollo 11. Not only was the American mission manned where the Soviet …

2019年4月19日 · Two hours before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were scheduled to leave the surface of the moon after their historic moonwalk, an unmanned Russian probe called Luna 15 …

2019年7月19日 · A Soviet spacecraft, Luna 15, had beat them to orbit days before, circumnavigating the moon in a final Cold War showdown race to land on another celestial …

2013年12月5日 · Luna 15 was just one in a long line of Soviet probes that had made it to the Moon—Luna 2 was the first human-made object to crash into the Moon way back in August …

2019年7月23日 · The uncrewed Luna 15 was launched three days before Apollo 11. But an abrupt end to its work raised suspicions it had crashed.

2019年7月19日 · Just three days before the launch of Apollo 11, the Soviet Union had launched a 5.7 metric ton robotic spacecraft called Luna 15 towards the Moon with only a vague …