A historic milestone: 59 years ago, the USSR achieved a soft landing on the Moon

A historic milestone: 59 years ago, the USSR achieved a soft landing on the Moon On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet Union, performed the first successful soft Moon landing. The Russians, like their predecessors, continue to explore the boundaries of space. Watch an archival footage of the first lunar landing and a story of the Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, excerpted from Lidia Vasilievskayas film Chasing Stars. Источник: Посольство России в Новой Зеландии, Embassy of Russia in New Zealand t. me, rusembnz