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
Jerry Craft Writing". The Mama's Boyz characters also act as official "spokescharacters" of the American Diabetes Association's African-American Program. Craft has two sons, Jaylen and Aren, who co-wrote the book "The Offenders: Saving the World While Serving Detention!" with their father. Craft lives in Norwalk, Connecticut. Jerry Craft Jerry Craft (born January 22, 1963, in New York City) is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip "Mama's Boyz." Craft is one of only a handful of syndicated African American cartoonists in the US. Craft grew up in Washington Heights and attended the Ethical Culture