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
1975–76 Lancashire Cup 1991-1992 Names Keith Elwell as number 9 (hooker) - The Widnes official archives name the hooker as Derek Hammond 1975–76 Lancashire Cup The 1975 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition 1975–76 was the sixty-third occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. Widnes won the trophy by beating Salford by the score of 16-7 The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 7,566 and receipts were £3,880.00 The total number of teams entering the competition remained at last season’s total of 14 with no junior/amateur clubs taking part. The same