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
Hana (name) heat, radiate. [Category:Slovak feminine given names]] Hana (name) Hana as a given name may have any of several origins. It can be a variant transliteration of Hannah, which is the Jewish and French and Christian form, meaning "grace" in Hebrew associated with God. It is also a Kurdish name meaning hope (), a Persian name meaning flower (), and an Arabic name meaning "happiness" (). As a Japanese name, it is usually translated as "flower" (). In Korean, it means the number "one" (). In Albanian, "Hana" means "moon". In Hawaiian, "Hana" means "craft" or "work" . In Maori, "Hana"