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 World from the Side of the Moon The World from the Side of the Moon The World from the Side of the Moon is the debut album from "American Idol" season 11 winner, Phillip Phillips. The album was released on November 19, 2012 and includes Phillips' coronation song, "Home". The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in August 2013. "The World from the Side of the Moon" spawned two hit singles "Home" and "Gone, Gone, Gone", both singles charted the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and hit number-one on the Adult Contemporary chart for more than three weeks. Both "Home" and "Gone, Gone,