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Moon

  • 22 Feb 2024

    Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.

  • 3 Apr 2023

    NASA announced the astronauts for the first trip to the moon in over 50 years.

  • 13 May 2019

    A new study was published in the journal 'Nature Geoscience,' which showed that the moon is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools.

  • 3 Jan 2019

    China's Chang'e-4 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the far side of the Moon.

  • 31 Dec 2009

    A blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred on the same day.

  • 18 Jun 2009

    NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.

  • 22 Oct 2008

    India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, was launched.

  • 24 Oct 2007

    China's first lunar probe Chang'e 1 launched.

  • 5 May 2000

    A conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon occurred.

  • 24 Jan 1990

    Japan launched its first lunar probe, Hiten, from the Uchinoura Space Center.

  • 18 Sep 1977

    The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.

  • 19 Dec 1972

    The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, returned to Earth.

  • 13 Dec 1972

    The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.

  • 11 Dec 1972

    The final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, successfully landed on the moon.

  • 7 Dec 1972

    Apollo 17 launched the final manned lunar landing mission, during which the crew took the famous 'blue marble' photo of the entire Earth.

  • 21 Apr 1972

    The Apollo 16 lunar module landed on the surface of the Moon.

  • 16 Apr 1972

    The Apollo 16 mission launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

  • 21 Feb 1972

    The USSR's uncrewed Luna 20 lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the Moon.

  • 1 Aug 1971

    Astronauts on Apollo 15 discovered a rock that could date back to the birth of the moon.

  • 6 Feb 1971

    Astronaut Alan Shepard was the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon.

  • 5 Feb 1971

    NASA's Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon.

  • 31 Jan 1971

    NASA's Apollo 14 spacecraft was launched and headed for the moon.

  • 17 Nov 1970

    The Soviet Lunokhod 1 became the first robotic lunar rover to land on the Moon's surface.

  • 10 Nov 1970

    The Soviet Union's Luna 17 uncrewed space mission launched.

  • 12 Sep 1970

    The Soviet Union launches the Luna 16.

  • 11 Apr 1970

    Apollo 13 was launched successfully but ran into difficulties two days later.

  • 11 Aug 1969

    The Apollo 11 astronauts were released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.

  • 26 May 1969

    NASA's Apollo 10 mission returned to earth after successfully testing all possible elements of a Moon landing.

  • 21 May 1969

    NASA's Apollo 10 Spacecraft ran a test flight of the Lunar Lander Module close to the Moon’s surface.

  • 18 May 1969

    Apollo 10 was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the Moon.

  • 3 Mar 1969

    NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.

  • 24 Dec 1968

    The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.

  • 21 Dec 1968

    The first manned Moon voyage, the Apollo 8, launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders.

  • 15 Sep 1968

    The Soviet Union launched Zond 5, the first spacecraft to successfully circle the moon and return to earth.

  • 31 Mar 1966

    Luna 10 was launched by the USSR and became the first satellite to orbit the moon.

  • 3 Feb 1966

    Luna 9 touches down on the Moon.

  • 8 Jun 1965

    Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.

  • 12 May 1965

    The Soviet Union's Luna 5 uncrewed spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon.

  • 24 Mar 1965

    Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon.

  • 25 May 1961

    US President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and promised to put a man on the moon within a decade.

  • 7 Oct 1959

    The Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 allowed the world to look at the far side of the moon for the first time.

  • 13 Sep 1959

    The Soviet Union's Luna 2 space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the moon's surface.

  • 26 Mar 1840

    The first photo of the moon was taken by John Draper in New York City.

  • 2 Jan 1839

    The Moon was photographed for the first time.

  • 25 Aug 1835

    First Installment of the Great Moon Hoax is Published.

  • 9 Mar 1497

    Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus recorded his first observation after witnessing a moon eclipse with a distant star.