Lunar exploration: human pioneers and robotic surveyors

Abstract

The Beginning of the Space Race (early Soviet rocketry and US satellite projects).- The Space Race 1960-1969 (the race between US and USSR unmanned spacecraft).- United States Wins the Race (US Apollo Programme).- How the Soviet Union Lost the Race (Soviet human lunar projects).- The Race is Over (unmanned lunar exploration of the ?70s and ?80s).- The Small Ones are Coming (probe missions).- The Future (possible lunar missions over the next decade).