(Bloomberg) -- SpaceX launched a pair of commercial satellites carrying lunar rovers as competition intensifies in the private sector’s race to the moon. The Elon Musk-led company’s Falcon 9 ...

took off from the Vostochny launch facility in Russia’s Far East at 2:10 a.m. on Friday Moscow time VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME /Amur Region/, August 11. /TASS/. Russia’s Luna-25 robotic spacecraft ...

and the parameters of the space plasma and gas-dust exosphere in the lunar orbit were obtained," the state corporation said. The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Luna-25 automatic probe was ...

On September 13, 1959, the Soviet Union achieved a significant milestone with the Luna 2 mission, successfully crashing a spacecraft onto the Moon and placing metallic pennants with the U.S.S.R.'s ...