USA exploration history
• Ranger 7, 8, & 9 Nine Rangers were launched; the last three were able to send back pictures of the lunar surface as the probe crashed into the surface
• Surveyors All successfully landed on the lunar surface and made measurements
• Apollo 11, 12, 14, Human landings on lunar surface, local exploration and 15, 16, 17 mineral (ilmenite) sample collection
• Apollo-Soyuz First rendezvous and link-up between USA and Russian spacecraft
• Clementine Lunar mapping and resource survey. First to find evidence of water in southern hemisphere craters
• Lunar Prospector Lunar mapping and resource survey
• SMART-1 First ESA lunar probe sent from LEO to LLO with an ion electric thruster
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