Luna, Card No 20 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)
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Card No. 20: Luna
Russia's triumphant Moon probes began in 1959 when her unmanned spacecraft passed, hit and looped behind the Moon.
Luna 3, launched on Oct. 4, 1959, took the first photographs of the Moon's hidden side, sending film-images to Earth by television.
Luna 9 – the first spacecraft to soft-land on Feb. 3, 1966 – sent TV pictures and cosmic ray data from within a shallow crater in the Ocean of Storms. Luna 15, a manoeuvrable spacecraft, was in lunar orbit at the time that America's Apollo astronauts were attempting man's first lunar landing in July 1969.
