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Lunar
1988
NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1976
U.S.S.R. launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1973
NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1972
Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972
Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972
Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1971
U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1971
Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
1970
U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
1969
Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1969
Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
1969
Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1968
Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968
Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968
U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1967
U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1967
U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1967
U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1967
Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1967
U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 3
1966
Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1966
Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1966
Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1966
Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E
1966
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1966
1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
1966
1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S.
1966
U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1966
U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1965
U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1965
U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1963
Soviet lunar probe failure
1962
U.S. launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1961
U.S. lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1959
U.S.S.R. launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1958
U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1783
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1638
Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S.
1504
Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
1178
Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
463
Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
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