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
The Moon Maid Australia. The Moon Maid The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-gerne. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title "The Moon Maid", Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title "Under the Red Flag", later retitled "The Moon Men", Part 3 was titled "The Red Hawk". As evident from its name, "Under the Red Flag" was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to