Moon
Some of the key events about Moon
- 1959First spacecraft reached the Moon's vicinity and sent back images of the far side
- 1969First humans landed on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission
- 1969Astronauts left behind nearly 100 bags of human waste on the lunar surface
- 1970The Apollo 13 mission to the Moon was aborted due to an oxygen tank explosion
- 1971First vehicle driven on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission
- 1972Last human mission to the Moon to date, Apollo 17, was completed
- 1972The last human mission to the Moon, Apollo 17, marked the end of lunar exploration for decades
- 1976The Soviet Union's Luna 24 mission became the last successful robotic probe to return samples from the Moon
- 1994Clementine mission provided the first complete topographic map of the Moon
- 1998Lunar Prospector mission discovered evidence of water ice at the lunar poles
- 1999The Lunar Prospector spacecraft was intentionally crashed into the Moon's south pole, ending its mission
- 2006The European Space Agency's SMART-1 probe crashed into the lunar surface, concluding its mission
- 2008India's Chandrayaan-1 mission confirmed the presence of water molecules on the lunar surface
- 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation lost contact with its Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter
- 2013China's Chang'e 3 mission achieved the first soft landing on the Moon since 1976
- 2019China's Chang'e 4 mission accomplished the first-ever landing on the far side of the Moon
- 2019Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the lunar surface during its landing attempt
- 2019India's Vikram lander crashed on the Moon's surface during the Chandrayaan-2 mission
- 2020NASA's SOFIA mission confirmed water on the sunlit surface of the Moon
- 2023Russia's Luna-25 mission crashed into the Moon's surface during a landing attempt
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