National Geographic has created a novel map of the Moon too has used it to plot the history of lunar exploration. In Explore l Years of Lunar Visits National Geographic has plotted out all the manned too unmanned landings on the moon.
Accompanying National Geographic's novel map of the Moon is a timeline of all missions to the Moon since Russia's Luna two infinite probe landed on September 14th, 1959. This timeline shows that the golden historic catamenia of Moon exploration was during the belatedly 1960's inspired past times the race to province the root homo on the moon. After the Apollo eleven mission inward 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the root human to measuring on the moon, the early on 70's saw a flurry of manned missions to the moon. However since the Apollo 17 mission inward 1972 no human beingness has landed on the moon.
After Russia's Luna 24 mission (unmanned) inward 1976 at that spot was a huge xiv yr gap amongst no lunar missions of whatever kind. This gap ended inward 1990 when Japan's Hiten probe was launched. However the Hiten probe didn't herald a novel historic catamenia of lunar exploration too at that spot were solely 3 to a greater extent than missions inward the adjacent 17 years. Since 2007 at that spot has been to a greater extent than involvement inward the Moon amongst a handful of lunar missions having been launched. Now at that spot are 12 lunar missions planned to accept house inward the adjacent vi years.
Alongside this timeline National Geographic has every bit good mapped out where all the lunar missions get got landed on the moon. The vast bulk get got landed on the nearly side of the moon. Only 8 lunar missions get got too hence far landed or orbited on the far side of the moon.
