BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Luna 9

MOON LANDER · the first soft landing
Luna 9
AI illustration of the real object
DATE February 1966COUNTRY Soviet Union

The first spacecraft ever to land softly on another world. The egg shaped Soviet capsule bounced to a stop, opened four petals like a flower, and sent home the first photos taken on the lunar surface, finally proving the ground was solid enough to land on, not a sea of deep dust that would swallow visitors, as some feared.

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