What is NASA hoping to accomplish with the moon shot “crash landings” that they e doing today?
A moon landing is arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 mission on September 13, 1959.[3] The United States’s Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.[4] Contents [hide] * 1 Unmanned landings * 2 Manned landings * 3 Fictional Moon landings (AD 79–1968) * 4 Scientific background * 5 Political background * 6 American unmanned hard landings (1958–1965) o 6.1 Pioneer missions o 6.2 Ranger missions * 7 Soviet unmanned hard landings (1958–1966) * 8 American unmanned soft landings (1966–1968) * 9 Soviet unmanned soft landings (1969–1976) * 10 Transition from direct ascent landings to lunar orbit operations * 11 Soviet lunar orbit satellites (1966–1974) * 12 American lunar orbit satellites (1966–1967) * 13 Soviet circumlunar loop flights (1967–1970) * 14 Manned Moon landings (1969–1972) o 14.1 Ame
