People who work seriously begun to reach the moon in 1950, when the US war and the Soviet Union began a race to refreshing cold space. The Soviets went first blood in 1959: this year, Luna 1, the first spacecraft was to reach the moon. Luna 2 was to reach the first of the lunar surface, and Luna 3 sent back the first images from the dark side of the moon. In 1966, Roskosmos space agency USSR-made the first soft landing on the moon (any other mission to the lunar surface within reach this far ended with a violent collision). But in the late 1960s, NASA blew past Roskosmos with the Apollo program, with the first manned mission to the Moon and, of course, the mission that activates the first man walk on the moon. From 1969-1972 12 persons-all-Americans walked on the lunar surface. Since then, not a single person has his foot stepped on the nearby celestial nearest land. For decades, in particular human space exploration, the moon for the efforts of the near-Earth orbit, such as the International Space Station ignored. But in recent years the interest of the moon should reach again raised, with Japan, the European Space Agency, China, India and Israel, to make all of their first forays onto the lunar orbit. In the table below you can see the entire history of human missions to the moon successes and failures. Photo copyright intermediate Archive Getty Images
Here Every single mission to the Moon in a chart
