"Soviet Union". The "former Soviet Union" never made it to the moon. The Russian station unfortunately crashed last week.
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I think Luna 9 landed in 1966, no?
Luna-24 1976, but the country that launched this station called "the Soviet Union", and "the former Soviet Union" is a bunch of countries, none of which have been to the moon.
It is clear that Russia is the successor of the Soviet space program, but Russia has not been to the moon either 😢.
Forgotten technologies of ancestors