Cabo Cañaveral, Florida – Landing spaceship on the moon It has long been a series of successes and failures.
Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive machines Through a program sponsored by NASA, he put the United States back on the moon for the first time since the end of the Apollo program, but the landing ended up circling on his side and worked briefly on the surface.
Now another American company, Firefly Aerospace, on Sunday added its lunar landing to the list of victories, becoming the first private entity to achieve a completely successful moon landing.
Both US companies are part of NASA’s effort to support commercial deliveries to the moon before Astronaut missions Later this decade.
The moon is full of failed landings over the years. A summary of the winners and losers of the moon:
Moon 9 of the Soviet Union successfully touches the Moon in 1966, after their predecessors crash or lose the moon completely. The United States continues four months later with the topograph 1. Both countries achieve more robotic landings, since the race is heated to land men.
NASA ensures the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing By Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin de Apollo 11. Twelve astronauts explore the surface in six missions, before the program ends with Apollo 17 in 1972. It is still the only country that sends humans to the Moon, the USA to the surface at the end of 2026 or so, one year after a lunar steering wheel for astronauts.
China, in 2013, becomes the Third country to land successfully On the moon, delivering a rover called Yutu, Chinese for Jade Rabbit. China continues with the Yutu-2 Rover in 2019, this time landing on the distant side of the moon, an impressive first. A sample return mission On the nearby side of the moon in 2020 performance of almost 4 pounds (1.7 kilograms) of lunar rocks and earth. Other Sample return mission From the other side in 2024 it offers rocks and land of the least explored part of the moon. Seen as the biggest rival of NASA’s moon, China aims to put its astronauts on the moon by 2030.
In 2023, Russia tries its first landing on the moon In almost half a century, but the Luna 25 spacecraft crashes against the moon. The previous land of the country, Luna 24, 1976, not only landed, but returned to Moon Rocks to Earth.
After his first landing crashed into the moon in 2019, India regroups and launches Chandrayaan-3 (Hindi for lunar crafts) in 2023. The ship touches successfullymaking India the fourth country to write down a lunar landing. The victory occurs only four days after Russia’s accidental landing.
Japan becomes the Fifth country to land successfully On the moon, with its spacecraft landing in January. The craft lands on the wrong side, committing its ability to generate solar energy, but achieves Start the photos and science Before calming when the long lunar night gets.
A private land by Israel, called Boheet, Hebrew for “at the beginning”, Star against the Moon in 2019. A Japanese business company, Ispace, launches a lunar landing In 2023, but also, shipwrecks.
Intuitive machines become the first private outfit to achieve a safe moon landing. The landing module leaned on his side in 2024, but briefly worked with limited communications. Another American company, astrobotics technology, tried to send a landing to the moon the same year, but had to surrender due to a fuel leak, and finally returned to the earth and burned on the Pacific.
There is another private career to the moon this year after Firefly landed Blue Ghost, delivering experiments for NASA. Intuitive and ISPACE machines also plan more moon deliveries.
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