Moon landing the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972. After the unsuccessful attempt by the Luna 1 to land on the Moon in 1959, the Soviet Union performed the first hard (unpowered) Moon landing later that same year 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. In 1966 the USSR accomplished the first
Molly Moon Stops the World Molly Moon Stops the World Molly Moon Stops the World is a 2003 children's novel by British author Georgia Byng. It is the second instalment in the "Molly Moon" six-book series. In "Molly Moon Stops the World", Molly Moon is fixing the orphanage with the money she earned in New York City. Davina Nuttel, a famous child actress, and Molly Moon's rival, gets kidnapped by Primo Cell, a powerful leader and rich businessman. Molly travels to Los Angeles, California and finds out she can stop time, a feat that enables her to stop an evil plot. Several reviewers favoured this