Lunar Mission stories:
India's lunar mission finds evidence of water on the Moon
Sep 23rd, 2009 - Times Online
Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.
Chandrayan I mission failure setback for India
Aug 31st, 2009 - XinHua
NEW DELHI, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Less than a year after its launch, India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayan I, knocked off the country's endeavor to assert its power in space...
India may abandon lunar mission after...
Aug 29th, 2009 - XinHua
NEW DELHI, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- India may have to abandon its first unmanned lunar mission after the spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1, abruptly lost radio contact with its ground station in Bangalore Saturday...
Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise
Nov 26th, 2008 - CNN
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Mylswamy Annadurai...
Lunar Mission videos from YouTube:
4:54Chandrayaan-I - India's Lunar Mission
A voyage to moon. Chandrayaan-I. Chandrayaan I (Sanskrit: चंद्रयान-1, lit: Lunar Craft), is an unmanned lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The mission includes a lunar orbiter as well as an impactor ...
7:19N1-L3 LK/LOK Soviet Lunar Mission - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
Soviet lunar mission N1 complete, from the launch to the landing. Capture with path ScreenCapture (3545 images). Music: Shostakovich symphony No.15 00:00 - 00:40 = The L3 complex would be injected into a 220 kmparking orbit of the earth ...
5:11Constellation Lunar Mission Animation
Follow a future lunar mission from launch to the moon and back.
10:01Coast to Coast AM - 06 Oct 2009 - Lunar Impact Mission part 1/4
www.youtube.com Richard C. Hoagland commented on NASA's upcoming Moon crash mission. He believes there's an occupied base on the moon (set up by the secret space program), and the planned explosion could disclose or reveal its existence ...
Lunar Mission from WikiPedia:
A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on September 13, 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Since the Soviet Union first succeeded in implementing the concept in 1966, this term referred to 18 spacecraft landings on the Moon up to 1976. Nine of these missions returned to Earth bearing samples of Moon rocks. The former Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, Europe, India and China have all achieved hard Moon landings.
The Soviet Union later achieved sample returns via the unmanned Luna 16, Luna 20 and Luna 24 Moon landings. Since this was during the time of the Cold War, the contest to be the first on the Moon was one of the most visible facts of the Space Race.
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