January: Luna 1 launches from the Soviet Union ... Spacecraft Center (which later will be renamed Johnson Space Center): "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things ...
The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War ... Unmanned probes were launched at the moon in 1958. By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface ...
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