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This is a list of species that have landed on the Moon, only including landings in which the payload survived. This list currently contains 10 species. This list currently contains 10 species. Before 2019, only animals (in particular one species, Homo sapiens ) landed on the moon; in January 2019, plants and fungi also landed on the moon.
Zond 5 (Russian: Зонд 5, lit. 'Probe 5') was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program.In September 1968 it became the first spaceship to travel to and circle the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory, the first Moon mission to include animals, and the first to return safely to Earth.
First spacecraft to fly by the Moon. 9: Pioneer 4: Pioneer 4: 3 March 1959: Juno II: NASA: Flyby: Partial failure Second-stage overperformance resulted in flyby at greater altitude than expected, out of instrument range, with 58,983 kilometres (36,650 mi) of distance. [10] Closest approach at 22:25 UTC on 4 March. First U.S. spacecraft to leave ...
Pieces of fabric and wood from the first airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer, traveled to the Moon in Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle and are displayed at the Wright Brothers National Memorial. Moon rocks The main repository for the Apollo Moon rocks is the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston , Texas.
The first animals in deep space, the first to circle the Moon, and the first two tortoises in space were launched on Zond 5 on 14 September 1968 by the Soviet Union. The Horsfield's tortoises were sent on a circumlunar voyage to the Moon along with wine flies, meal worms, and other biological specimens. These were the first inhabitants of Earth ...
Scientists have revealed an ambitious plan to put endangered animals on the Moon. The storage facility would allow us to keep samples of the most at-risk animals species on Earth. In a new article ...
“If you were going to the moon, you’d expect the journey to be uncomfortable but it’d be worth it,” she says. “You just have to think, ‘This is what I need to get from one world to ...
Enos, the third great ape and only chimpanzee to orbit the Earth, being prepared for launch on Mercury-Atlas 5 (November 29, 1961) Able, who flew on the first two monkey space mission in May 1959, on display at the National Air and Space Museum Sam, a rhesus macaque, flew to an altitude of 88 km (55 mi) on December 4, 1959, on a NASA rocket, Little Joe 2