Tuesday, October 06, 2009

50th Anniversary of First Photos of the Far Side of the Moon

50 years ago today, Luna-3 took the first photographs of the far side of the Moon in 1959. They were shot on film, developed automatically onboard, and then scanned and transmitted by radio.



http://www.mentallandscape.com/L_Luna.htm


1 Comments:

Blogger MoonRose said...

where did you find all of this information on soviet space imaging?

Monday, February 22, 2010 2:51:00 PM  

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