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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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