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Galileo Galilei observed the moon with a telescope for the first time. This was the first observation of the moon.
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J.W. Draper took the first photograph of the moon.
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Apollo 11 launched of from NASA. This was the first spacecraft launched in history.
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Neil Armsrtong was the first human to land on the moon. Armstrong took the first step on the moon after exiting the Apollo 11 spacecraft. The spacecraft was named Eagle.
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Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean land on the moon in Apollo 12. The spacecraft was named Intrepid
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Alan B. Shepard and Stuart A. Roosa landed on the moon in Apollo 14. The spacecraft was named Antares.
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David R. Scott and James B. Irusin landed on the moon in Apollo 15. The spacecraft was named Falcon.
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John W. Young and Charles M. Duke landed on the moon in Apollo 16. The spacecraft was named Orion.
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Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt landed on the moon in Apollo 17. The spacecraft was named Challenger.
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Hiten launched from Japan. This was Japan's first spacecraft launched.
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Hiten crashed into the moon. It was an intentional crash
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The European space agency's SMART 1 lunar orbiter inventories key chemical products.
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Kepler launched. Kepler was the first planet hunting spacecraft
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The launch of GRAIL lunar gravity probe missions
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Ebb and Flow, a pair of NASA probes orbiting the moon for GRAIL, find a mountain near the lunar north pole of the moon
