Moon landing the first Soyuz flight in 1967, the co-ordination of the Soviet Moon landing program quickly unraveled. The Soviets built a landing craft and selected cosmonauts for the mission that would have placed Aleksei Leonov on the Moon's surface, but with the successive launch failures of the N1 booster in 1969, plans for a manned landing suffered first delay and then cancellation. A program of automated return vehicles was begun, in the hope of being the first to return lunar rocks. This had several failures. It eventually succeeded with Luna 16. But this had little impact, because the Apollo 11 and
In my Craft or Sullen Art is cited at the start of the 1971 film "The Raging Moon" by Bryan Forbes starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman. In my Craft or Sullen Art "In my Craft or Sullen Art" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). First published in 1946 in "Deaths and Entrances", the poem describes a poet who must write for the sake of his craft rather than any material gains that may come from his work. <poem>In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their