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
Martin Craft recorded the album "Blood Moon", which attracted the attention of Jeff Barrett of Heavenly Recordings. The label released the album on 17 June 2016. The music video for the single "Chemical Trails" was directed by fellow Australian, photographer George Byrne. "Blood Moon" features ten songs based on piano improvisations by Craft. Participating performers are Seb Rochford, Kristina Train and Mary Lattimore. Craft tended to play most of the instruments on his own records, and has most often acted as his own engineer and producer. Whilst many of his songs incorporate folk-style finger-picking, others draw their inspiration from dance-influenced pop, Latin