astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the lunar surface. Just a few years later, as the Apollo program came to an end, the first whispers of what became known as the “moon ...

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface — and by October of that year a third probe circled around and photographed the far side of the moon.

A rare blood moon lunar eclipse — which hasn’t happened in the U.S. since 2022 — was visible for skywatchers across most of ...