Benefits of space exploration earth and space have increased. The list of missions to the moon begin as early as 1958 and continued into the current age. A few successful lunar missions, by the USSR, include missions such as, the Luna 1 space craft that completed the first flyby of the moon in 1959, the Luna 3 lunar probe that took the first pictures of the far side of the moon in 1959, the Luna 10 orbiter that was the first orbiter of the moon in 1966, and the Lunokhod 1 lunar rover in 1970, which was the first rover that explored the surface
Martin Craft recorded the album "Blood Moon", which attracted the attention of Jeff Barrett of Heavenly Recordings. The label released the album on 17 June 2016. The music video for the single "Chemical Trails" was directed by fellow Australian, photographer George Byrne. "Blood Moon" features ten songs based on piano improvisations by Craft. Participating performers are Seb Rochford, Kristina Train and Mary Lattimore. Craft tended to play most of the instruments on his own records, and has most often acted as his own engineer and producer. Whilst many of his songs incorporate folk-style finger-picking, others draw their inspiration from dance-influenced pop, Latin