Lunar  Exploration
Over four centuries till today!
This is a timeline of humanity’s exploration of the Lunar (Moon),
including scientific studies and spacecraft missions.
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Timeline of Moon Exploration
Start here looking back into the year of 1625;
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1625
German scientist Johannes Kelper wrote the first work of science fiction – Somnium (The Dream), about a journey to the Moon.
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1865
French author Jules Verne published `From the Earth To The Moon` which inspired modern scientists to take the possibility of Moon travel seriously.
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1903
Russian School teacher – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had researched the theory of oxygen-hydrogen rockets since 1880.
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1912
French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie gave a talk on the possibility of Space Travel.
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1919
US physicist Robert Goddard declared that a solid-fuel rocket can reached the Moon.
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1923
German teacher – Hermann Oberth discussed human space flight with liquid propellants.
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March 16th, 1926
In Auburn, Massachusetts, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket on his Aunt Effie’s farm and after reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away in a cabbage field.
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January 25th, 1930
In Berlin, the Verin für Raumschiffahart launched the first liquid-fuel rocket on a five-minute flight – among its members of Wernher von Braun.
1932
MosGIRD (The Moscow Grop for the Study of Reaction Motion) – one of the several Soviet rocket clubs sent a rocket to a height of 1,300 feet.