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Luna 17 was launched from an earth parking orbit towards the Moon and entered lunar orbit on November 15, 1970. The spacecraft soft landed on the Moon in the Sea of Rains.
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Luna cornea Old Chem., horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn. Luna moth Zool., a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna).
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Luna 9 soft landing capsule (NASA) When assembled, the photographs provided a panoramic view of the nearby lunar surface. The pictures included views of nearby rocks and of the horizon 1.4 km away from the spacecraft.
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Luna 10 was launched on 31 March 1966 and Luna 12 on 22 October 1966. They were the first Luna spacecraft intended to go into orbit around the moon, rather than soft or hard landing there.
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Luna 9 The Soviet Union's Luna 9 snapped this image of the Ocean of Storms 35 years ago this week, shortly after it became the first spacecraft to successfully soft land on the Moon.
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Luna fría
Legada del frío invierno
Nombres de la luna llena en el almanaque de Grajeros
Nombres de la luna llena
Los enlaces en color anaranjado lo llevan a las páginas en Inglés, que aún no han sido traducidas al Español.
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Luna Island is a very small uninhabited island in Niagara Falls, New York, New York. It is between the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls , which are two of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls....
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Luna is a beautiful world that lies some 384,400 kilometers from Earth. It is littered with mountains, valleys, old volcano sites, and many bowl like holes called Craters.
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Luna 3 first photos of the far side of the Moon 1959 (USSR) Mariner 2 the first successful probe to flyby Venus in December of 1962, and it returned information which confirmed that Venus is a very hot (800 degrees Fahrenheit, ...
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LUNA 1 Luna 1 or Mechta (meaning "dream" in Russian) was a sphere-shaped spacecraft that was the first to orbit the moon. It was launchedfrom Earth on January 2, 1959.
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Luna: One of two successful series of Soviet unpiloted lunar missions. There were 24 missions to the Moon in the Luna series launched from 1959 to 1976.
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1959, 2 January--- Luna 1 launched by Soviet Union, comes within 6000 km of Moon; Luna 3 (October) takes picture of Moon's far side. 1961, 12 April---Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to orbit Earth.
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1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 1 flyby launched, it discovered solar wind 1959 - Moon - Pioneer 4 flyby 1959 - Moon - Success - Luna 2 lander launched, it was the first spacecraft to impact onto he surface of the moon ...
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2324 Born in Copernicus City, Luna 2342 Admitted to Starfleet Academy's medical program mid-2340s Meets Jack Crusher mid-2340s Meets Jean-Luc Picard 2348 Marries Jack Crusher 2348 Wesley Crusher born 2350 Graduates medical school 2352 Interns on ...
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Luna 1 (U.S.S.R.) escapes Earth's gravity. 1959 A.D. Vanguard 2 (U.S.A.) takes first photos of Earth. 1959 A.D. Luna 2 (U.S.S.R.) hits the Moon. 1959 A.D. Luna 3 (U.S.S.R.) returns first pictures of far side of Moon. 1960 A.D.
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and the Luna series by the USSR in the 1960s, and, finally, the manned landings on the lunar surface as part of the U.S. Apollo program made direct measurement of the physical and chemical properties of the moon a reality.
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A famous example is the mythical "Northwest Passage" a supposed Lyaponov tube between Mars and Cis- Luna or (in earlier stories, Mars and Earth) with a circuit time of less than a decade.
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The USSR's Luna 1 reported that there were very few particles of high energy within the outer belt. The gyroradii for energetic protons would be large enough to bring them into contact with the Earth's atmosphere.
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The far side of the moon was first observed by humans in 1959 when the unmanned Soviet Luna 3 mission orbited the moon and photographed it.
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 See also: Planet, Earth, Orbit, Moon, Solar
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