The First Moon Landing Wasn’t Apollo — And We Just Found It

The first ever human spacecraft to land on the moon wasn’t Apollo 11 – it was the Soviet Luna 9 probe, which touched down three years before the Apollo lander. For decades, researchers have for some reason been unable to track down its location … up until now. In a recent paper, researchers wrote that they used a neural network to discover the probe (with 70-80% confidence). Let’s take a look.