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In 1959, a spaceship fell out of the lunar sky and hit the ground near the Sea of Serenity. The ship itself was shattered, but its mission was a success. Luna 2 from the Soviet Union had became the first manmade object to "land" on the Moon.
This may seem hard to believe, but Luna 2 started a trend: Cras...
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In August 1976, four years after the final Apollo mission, a 6-tonne spacecraft landed on the moon in the Mare Crisium. Over the course of a single day, it sent back spectacular pictures of the lunar surface, gathered rock samples and then blasted off for the journey home. [url=http://en.wikipedia...
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Luna 3 - First Images of the Moon's Far Side, 1959 Click to Play | View Details
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The Moon Expand (66kb, 1024 x 768) Time 5:20 GMT, 08 Sept, 07 Exposure: 10 sec
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Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans A previously unheard recording of a Russian spacecraft attempting to beat NASA's Apollo 11 in 1969's race to the moon has been released. In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans...
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The name of the hypothesized protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek goddess Theia, a Titan who gave birth to the Moon goddess Selene. According to the giant impact hypothesis, Theia formed along with the other planets of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago, and was approximately th...
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Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are on the brink of a path-breaking discovery. They may have found signs of life in some form or the other on the Moon. They believe so because scientific instruments on India's first unmanned...
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Half-Century Old Moon Mystery Solved In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 1953, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of vaporised rock rising from the center of the Moon's face. If his theory was right, Dr. Leon Stuart would be the fir...
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Giordano Bruno is one of the youngest large craters (22 km diameter) on the Moon. How old is "youngest"? Written accounts of twelfth century observations of a bright flash on the Moon may record the event that formed Giordano Bruno crater? That idea was proposed after the first high resol...
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Luna 21 (Ye-8 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 21. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover (Lunokhod 2). Read more Launch: 8 January 1973 at 06:55:38 UT...
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