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 Light of the Moon marking writer-director Jessica M. Thompson as a talent to watch." Metacritic gave the film a score of 76 out of 100 based on 9 critical reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". "The Light of The Moon" was positively reviewed in both "The Hollywood Reporter", which stated that "Beatriz and Stahl-David have a combustible energy" and in "Variety," which said the film was "harrowingly effective" and "brutally frank without ever lapsing into exploitation. Sensitive without ever being sanctimonious." The Light of the Moon The Light of the Moon is a 2017 American drama film written, directed, and edited by Jessica M. Thompson.