NASA completed a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
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Russia's Luna 25 lunar lander mission crash-landed on the Moon.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.
The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, returned to Earth.
A conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon occurred.
US President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and promised to put a man on the moon within a decade.
