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
Cydonia: Mars - The First Manned Mission "Just Adventure" deemed it an "excellent first effort", and praised it for successfully merging entertainment and education. "PC Gamer"'s Stephen Poole criticised te lackluster characters, plot, and graphics. Heidi Fournier of "Adventure Gamers" thought it was an interesting entry in the adventure game genre that would also have crossover appeal to fantasy fans. Cydonia: Mars - The First Manned Mission Cydonia: Mars - The First Manned Mission (aka "Lightbringer: The Next Giant Leap for Mankind") is a 1999 adventure video game, and the premiere title for developer Aneiva Interactive In the wake of Earth's imminent destruction, the player is part