Moon by the Soviet Union's Luna 2, an unmanned spacecraft. The United States' NASA Apollo program achieved the only manned lunar missions to date, beginning with the first manned orbital mission by Apollo 8 in 1968, and six manned landings between 1969 and 1972, with the first being Apollo 11. These missions returned lunar rocks which have been used to develop a geological understanding of the Moon's origin, internal structure, and the Moon's later history. Since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by unmanned spacecraft. Both the Moon's natural prominence in the earthly sky and
Last Moon realizing he is pierced with arrows, which is followed by the ending performance of "Setsugekka (The End of Silence)", and video showing the ascending soul of Yoshitsune. Last Moon Last Moon is the eighth full-length studio album by Japanese recording artist Gackt released on April 27, 2016 in Japan. It is considered to be the final, but not ending part of "Moon Saga", a concept by which is conceptually linked to its predecessor albums "Moon" (2002), "Crescent" (2003), and "Diabolos" (2005), as well as the movie "Moon Child" (2003), theatre play "Mysteries of Yoshitsune I&II" (2012-2014), and two novels (2003,