Exploration of the Moon and indeed of human history in general. The first man-made object to reach the Moon was the unmanned Soviet probe Luna 2, which made a hard landing on September 14, 1959, at 21:02:24 Z. The far side of the Moon was first photographed on October 7, 1959, by the Soviet probe Luna 3. Though vague by today's standards, the photos showed that the far side of the Moon almost completely lacked maria. In an effort to compete with these Soviet successes, U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed the national goal of landing a human on the Moon. Speaking to a
Moon (Korean name) of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 73.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Moon in their passports, while another 26.4% spelled it as Mun. There are 14 hanja with the reading Moon on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are: People with the single-syllable given name Moon include: Korean names containing the element Moon include: Moon (Korean name) Moon, also spelled Mun, is a Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name,