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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (268376)	1/30/2015 1:40:21 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541009

Dirty Stinkin Russians.......... The Soviet Union performed the first hard (unpowered) Moon landing in 1959 with the Luna 2 spacecraft, a feat the U.S. duplicated in 1962 with Ranger 4. Since then, twelve Soviet and U.S. spacecraft have used braking rockets to make soft landings and perform scientific operations on the lunar surface, between 1966 and 1976. The USSR accomplished the first soft landings and took the first pictures from the lunar surface on the Luna 9 and Luna 13 missions. The U.S. followed with five unmanned Surveyor soft landings. The Soviet Union achieved the first unmanned lunar soil sample return with the Luna 16 probe on 24 September 1970. This was followed by Luna 20 and Luna 24 in 1972 and 1976. The Luna 17 and Luna 21 were successful unmanned rover missions. Two unmanned landing missions were unsuccessful: Luna 36 landed successfully, but its scientific equipment then failed. The U.S. Surveyor 4 lost all radio contact only moments before its landing.