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
Craft of Opportunity Program could be operated from the auxiliary minesweepers. Although not directly a part of COOP, the Defence Maritime Services training ship "Seahorse Horizon" can also be fitted out as an auxiliary minesweeper. By 2012, most of the vessels have been sold or returned to their owners. "Bandicoot" and "Wallaroo" have not been operated as minesweepers since 2010, but were retained until 2014 to provide berthing support for nuclear-powered warships. The drones have been non-operational since 2007, and are due to be replaced by 2013. Craft of Opportunity Program The Craft of Opportunity Program (COOP) was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) acquisition