Moon landing the first Soyuz flight in 1967, the co-ordination of the Soviet Moon landing program quickly unraveled. The Soviets built a landing craft and selected cosmonauts for the mission that would have placed Aleksei Leonov on the Moon's surface, but with the successive launch failures of the N1 booster in 1969, plans for a manned landing suffered first delay and then cancellation. A program of automated return vehicles was begun, in the hope of being the first to return lunar rocks. This had several failures. It eventually succeeded with Luna 16. But this had little impact, because the Apollo 11 and
Harry Craft Eventually, Craft progressed to the Triple-A level with the Kansas City Blues of the American Association in 1953–1954. "I was lucky to have Harry as skipper my first two years", Mantle said years later. "He started me out right." Craft would also manage Roger Maris at the Major League level in 1958–1959 with the Kansas City Athletics, just before the young right fielder was traded to the Yankees. Maris credited Craft with helping him with his hitting. Craft went from the minor league Blues to the Major League Athletics in 1955, their first year in Kansas City after transferring from