February 3, 1966

[Martin Antonenko]

The first man-made object lands on the moon!


In the space race, the Soviets are in the lead once again! While the USA succeeds in bringing unmanned research probes to the moon, but they shatter on the surface, the Soviets manage the first "soft" moon landing!

54 years ago today, the first man-made object landed softly on the moon using a special process! It is the Soviet lunar probe "Luna-9".



Previously there had been more than a dozen failures in the “Luna” program, the technical problems at the time were huge.

On January 31, 1966, the launcher then started ...

... in the direction of the earth's trabot - three days late, "Luna-9" then lands softly on the moon, in the "Ocean of Storms" exactly at the position 64 degrees 22 minutes west longitude and 7 degrees 8 minutes north latitude, as precisely calculated in advance.





That of Sergei Pavlovich Koroljow (the picture shows him with Major Jurij Gagarin, the first person in space, 1961) ...





... developed landing technology in a striking way anticipates the method with which the USA is landing on Mars today.

A landing device equipped with control missiles ...



... bores itself firmly into the surface of the moon - and then releases a rubber-like ball filled with air in which the actual probe is hidden.

After the ball comes to rest, the air escapes and the ball releases the probe. This opens and is ready for use.



The automated probe then begins its scientific work.

Tragic: The spiritual father of Soviet space travel, Sergei Koroljow, no longer experiences this success - he died a few days earlier, on January 14, 1966, in Moscow...:





In the Comecon countries, the Soviet success with Luna-9 is of course appropriately recognized ...

Cheers

 

[grasshopper]

February 3 coincidentally the day Apollo 1 scheduled to lift off..but of course fire on 27 January killed the three astronauts..Richard Feynman w help of Christa Macauliffe got the flaws in NASA and manufacturers public. Good one Martin. As with olympics the space race was propaganda stunt for both east and west to prove technical and social supremacy. In reality hubris reigned for both

 

[Martin Antonenko]

In reality hubris reigned for both

Fully Agree!

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The history of space travel has to be rewritten anyway!


Abandoned Viking settlement discovered on the back of the moon


Houston - Space history has to be rewritten. On the far side of the moon, NASA scientists have discovered an abandoned Viking settlement from the 10th century, which shows that Norsemen were the first to set foot on the earth's satellite long before the United States. In the heyday of the settlement, an estimated 200 Vikings lived there with their cattle.





"The spectacular images of the NASA lunar probe 'Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter' clearly show an abandoned Viking settlement near the Perepelkin crater," announced the astronomer Nick Pelvis at a press conference today. "Neil Armstrong might not like this, but in his 'great step for mankind' he just followed in Nordic footsteps."


Together with experts in Nordic medieval studies, NASA has succeeded in shedding light on the background of the Viking settlement. From records that could not be classified up to now, it emerges that the explorer Tjodolf Olavson first set out for the moon with three ships in 937 and founded the first permanent settlement there a year later.


The famous deep sea and apparently space-capable longships were very useful to the Vikings on their journeys to the moon and back: As long as they were still within the earth's atmosphere, they could use their sails, and then rowed the rest of the way.
"The Vikings used the moon, which they called Månenland, to raise cattle and as a base for raids on England," explains Prof. Nichol Svensson from the University of Oslo. "That is why the English were often so surprised when the Northmen came. Since they settled on the far side of the moon, they were practically invisible."
It was only when the number of Viking raids fell sharply around the time of the Battle of Hastings (1066) that the settlement on the moon lost its importance as a trading post and military retreat and finally fell into disrepair a few years later.

 

[Nap]

Hi Martin

The space race ......the thing of childhood excitement seeing rockets

Thanks again

Nap

 

[OldTaff]

You'll be telling us they built the Pyramids next !!

Alan

 

[Martin Antonenko]

You'll be telling us they built the Pyramids next !!

It wasn't quite like that!

Others had to toil - but they were the builders! You can see very clearly here ...:



And if you take a closer look at the reconstructed Sphinx ...

 

[OldTaff]

 

[Airkid]

What have you been drinking?

 

[Martin Antonenko]

 

[Airkid]

 

[Henkm]

Nice one Martin but it's now 55 years ago (the lunar landing, not the vikings)