Rocket to the Moon

Soviet LK-3 lunar lander engineering test unit (1968) - Andrew Gray

My Daily Kona is talking about the 1960s race to the moon:

Still desperate to beat the Americans, the Soviets made one final play: a robotic sample return probe. On July 21, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were still on the Moon, the Luna 15 probe crashed into a mountain just 500 miles away, definitively concluding the space race.

The Soviet Moon Rocket N1 has appeared here before.