“I’m worried about you always being at the bottom of your class,” said the father to his son. “Don’t worry Dad,” he replied. “They still teach the same thing at both ends.”
In 1959, the first space probe to strike the moon was the Soviet Luna 2, which crashed east of the Sea of Serenity. Thirty-six hours after its launch on 12 Sep 1959, it was the first man-made object reach a celestial body.
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