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
In my Craft or Sullen Art is cited at the start of the 1971 film "The Raging Moon" by Bryan Forbes starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman. In my Craft or Sullen Art "In my Craft or Sullen Art" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). First published in 1946 in "Deaths and Entrances", the poem describes a poet who must write for the sake of his craft rather than any material gains that may come from his work. <poem>In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their