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  • “But ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel.”
    - Ray Bradbury
    Zen In The Art Of Writing

Luna 2 Crashes Into The Moon (This Day In History)

Tuesday, Sep 14th, 2010 by Anita

Picture of the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2.

This day in 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 slammed into the Moon, thus becoming the first spacecraft ever to reach it.

It’s predecessor Luna 1 had been intended to get the honor of being first but missed the Moon by over three thousand miles due to a malfunction in the ground-based control system. Luna 2 landed right on target in the Mare Serenitatis area of the Moon:

Picture indicating where Mare Serenitatis is on the Moon.

The success of Luna 2 was a huge propaganda bonus for the USSR and came just in time for a scheduled visit to the US by Nikita Krushchev, enabling him to make such comments during his trip like:

We have beaten you to the moon, but you have beaten us in sausage making.


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