-
The moon was created when a larged asteriod collided with the earth and got caught in the Earths gravitational pull.
-
-
He invented the telescope. With his invention he could see, the craters and valleys, which he thought were seas.
-
The Soviet Union's Luna 2 crash lands, becoming the first manmade object to contact the Moon
-
US President John F. Kennedy pledges to land a man on the Moon "and return him safely to earth" before 1970.
-
The soviets landed on the moon first, But only after 5 attemps, 3 crashed on the moon. But 1 missed all together.
-
The human races first footsteps on the moon. Neil Armstrong says "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
-
The USSR's unmanned Luna 17 enters lunar orbit carrying Lunokhod 1, the very first lunar rover. The vehicle covered more than 10 miles during almost a year of operation, and transmitted 20,000 pictures.
-
NASA's Apollo 17, was the last manned moon mission
