Sept. 14, 1959: Soviet Luna 2 Probe Lands on Moon
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A decade before Neil Armstrong puts the first footprint on the moon, Luna 2 makes a strong first impression.
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THE MISSION: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in a mission to provide clues to how life arose on Earth.
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The probe named Huygens is scheduled to hit Titan&#39;s atmosphere before or on 14 Jan. to determine whether the Moon&#39;s surface has lakes or seas of liquid methane and ethane or not.
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A European space probe has landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, a space official said Friday, buoying hopes that the mission would produce data that could shed light on the origins of life on Earth.
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THE first spacecraft sent from Europe to the Moon has safely entered lunar orbit, scientists behind the mission learnt yesterday. Smart-1, which is powered by a Star
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The first European spacecraft to be sent to the moon has entered lunar orbit, according to the European Space Agency. The SMART-1 spacecraft has reached its closest point from the moon so far, coming within 5,000 kilometres of the lunar surface.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 10--When President John F. Kennedy challenged America to go to the moon in 1962, it was in the middle of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's space program was well ahead of ours. Americans worried about a "space gap" and Soviet domination of the heavens.
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The Cassini spacecraft, a joint European-US mission that has been orbiting Saturn since June, dropped its wok-shaped, 2.7-meter-wide Huygens probe on a two- week freefall toward Titan, the planet&#39;s largest moon.
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DARMSTADT, Germany: Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission yesterday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at 2 kilometres per second, or 7,200 kilometres per hour.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon has arrived and begun orbiting, 14 months after its launch from French Guiana. European Space Agency officials confirmed Tuesday the SMART-1 spacecraft reached
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The European space agency is celebrating the successful launch of its probe to Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan. The Huygens probe was launched from the NASA spacecraft Cassini which was orbiting Saturn and is due to reach Titan in mid-January.
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Europe's first moon probe signed off its  mission on schedule by crashing into the lunar surface on  Sunday, completing a project scientists hope will tell them  more about the moon's origin.
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Today, two and a half years after the historic landing of ESAâs Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturnâs largest moon is ready to be presented.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - A space probe has begun a 21-day freefall toward Saturn&#39;s largest moon in a mission that scientists hope will shed light on the development of life on Earth.
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Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, crashed onto the lunar surface as scheduled at 7.42 am (0542 GMT) Sunday, ending a successful 16-month mission, the European Space Agency announced.
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The Huygens probe has been released and is heading for Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, scientists have confirmed. A signal that the robot lab had separated from its mothership, Cassini, was received by the US
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SPACE.com / There's nothing quite like being able to reach out and touch a piece of the Moon. Knowing that an astronaut (one of only twelve people on the whole planet Earth) had traveled a quarter million miles across the void of cislunar space, landed on a barren and dusty surface, stepped out of his cocoon of the lunar module, picked up that rock, then brought it home again, is a pretty amazing and daunting thought.