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
The Moon Maid Australia. The Moon Maid The Moon Maid is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, belonging to the Lost World sub-gerne. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title "The Moon Maid", Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title "Under the Red Flag", later retitled "The Moon Men", Part 3 was titled "The Red Hawk". As evident from its name, "Under the Red Flag" was originally set in contemporary Soviet Russia, with the Bolsheviks as villains; as this was not popular with the publishers, Burroughs transferred it to