jan 6, 1959 - By 1959 Both American and Russian scientists were in a race to get a spacecraft to the Moon; the Russians made it first. Space-probe Luna 2 crash-landed into the moon at a speed that would kill an astronaut if one had been travelling in it! It was ten more years until a human visited the moon's surface.
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jan 6, 1959
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~ 66 years ago