Forget Waldo. Where’s Luna 9?

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Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon in 1966, has never been precisely located despite known landing coordinates published by Pravda. The 99-kg Soviet lander bounced several times before settling in Oceanus Procellarum near the Reiner and Marius craters, but 1960s technology limitations left its exact position

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