Name: Seeing the Moon's Farside for the First Time | Videos | Gan Jing World
Uploaded: 2014-10-03T04:00:00.000Z
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: We'll never see the Moon's far side from Earth, but Luna 3 brought us the first images in 1959. They aren't great, but they're pretty amazing. Read more about t... | Videos | Gan Jing World

The Vintage Space

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We'll never see the Moon's far side from Earth, but Luna 3 brought us the first images in 1959. They aren't great, but they're pretty amazing. Read more about the Luna 3 mission in my latest post on Vintage Space at Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/our-first-look-moons-far-side

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