[FPSPACE] The first Moon race kicked off 50 years ago - Sunday

[Paolo Ulivi]

I have a small collection of pictures relating to the second US Moon 
probe (Pioneer 1) on my website 
http://utenti.lycos.it/paoloulivi/pioneer1.html

Sven Grahn wrote:

>On August 17, 1958, the USAF launched the first Moon probe on a Thor-Able rocket. It did not get far- exploded after 77 seconds. But this launch kicked of  the first race to the Moon, the unpiloted version. It culminated a little more than a year later with Luna-2 hitting the Moon and Luna-3 taking pictures of the hidden side.
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