Tag: Moon

• I’ll see you on the far side of the Moon

  Modern humans have been around roughly 100,000 years, but until 55 years ago, none of us knew what the far side of our own Moon looked like. That changed in 1959 with the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 robotic probe, the first spaceship to travel around the Moon and return photos to Earth. My latest column…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 14, 2014

  Astronomy

  history of science, Moon, Space exploration