Moon Missions
Moon Missions the missions that are sent to the Moon, can be of 5-6 different types. In the 1950s, humans started sending missions to the moon. And since then, as technology has improved, the complexity of these missions has also increased.
1. Fly-By Mission
The first and the simplest type of mission is a fly-by mission. In this, a spacecraft is sent to the space, which passes by the Moon. It doesn’t orbit around the moon, but merely flies by the moon and leaves.
The first successful fly-by mission was launched by the Soviet Union in January 1959, when their spacecraft Luna-1 passed by the moon. Two months after this, America launched its first successful fly-by mission in March 1959, which was called Pioneer-4. Their aim was to study the Moon from a distance.
