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Apollo |
| American program of studying the Moon. On July 20, 1969 the first man landed on the Moon. |
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Surveyor |
| Program, consisted of seven unmanned lunar missions that were launched between May 1966 and January 1968. |
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Ranger |
| Program, consisted of nine spacecraft missions, launched between 1961 and 1965 with the primary objective of obtaining high-quality photographs of the lunar surface. |
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Luna |
| Long-running program conducted by the former Soviet Union, designed to collect information about the Moon and its environment. 24 missions were launched in 1959 through 1976. |
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Lunar Orbiter |
| Five missions, launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings. |
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Pioneer 1-4 |
| First attempts made by the United States to build spacecraft that were intended to leave Earth orbit, between October 1958 and March 1959. Only Pioneer 4 was able to escape Earth's gravitational pull and flyby the moon. |
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