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Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first telescopic observation of the moon.Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei drew the first telescopic representation of the moon.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first telescopic observation of the moon.Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei drew the first telescopic representation of the moon. -
Michael Florent van Langren made the first map of the moon
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Roger Joseph Boscovich proved the moon has no atmosphere.
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Robert Goddard suggested sending rockets to the moon.
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US lanches the first satillite, explorer
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Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 reached the moon, impacting near the crater Autolycus.
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President John F Kennedy addresses congress and challenges nation to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
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Ranger 7 transmits the first close-range images of the Moon.
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America’s Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the Moon.
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NASA's Apollo 8 made the first manned flight to the moon, circling it 10 times before returning to Earth.
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Apollo 8 begins first manned journey to the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Williams Anders make a Christmas Eve broadcast that is shown live on television around the world.
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Armstrong and Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon while Collins remains in lunar orbit in the command and service module.
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Apollo 12 made first precision landing on the the moon.
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Apollo 17 made the last manned landing of the Apollo Program.
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Soviet Luna 24 returned the last sample to be returned from the moon.
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft obtained multispectral images of the western limb and part of the far side of the moon.
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NASA's Clementine mission conducted multispectral mapping of the moon.
