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
1959 World Weightlifting Championships & Jerk (178.5 kg). in 90 kg, Yury Vlasov broke the Snatch World Record (153 kg). 1959 World Weightlifting Championships The 1959 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from September 29 to October 4, 1959. There were 85 men in action from 19 nations. Weightlifters from Soviet Union earned the highest number of gold medals (4) and the most overall medals (7). Host nation Poland finished second with 1 gold and 5 overall medals. Four World Records broke in this tournament. in 82.5 kg category Rudolf Plyukfelder from USSR set two new World Record in Snatch (141