Jesuit missionaries, who arrange to have a written account of his adventures sent back to Spain. The story ends with Gonsales meeting a group of He lands in China, where he is immediately arrested as a magician, but after learning the language manages to win the trust of the local After six months of living among them, Gonsales becomes homesick and concerned for the condition of his birds, and sets off to return to Earth. There Gonsales encounters the Lunars, a tall Christian people inhabiting what appears to be a utopian paradise. This time his birds fly higher and higher, towards the Moon, which they reach after a journey of twelve days. He uses his flying machine to escape to the shore, but once safely landed he is approached by hostile natives and is forced to take off again. Once fully recovered, Gonsales resumes his journey home, but his ship is attacked by an English fleet off the coast of There he discovers the gansa, a species of wild swan able to carry substantial loads, and contrives a device that allows him to harness many of them together and fly around the island. Having made his fortune in theĮast Indies, he decides to return to Spain, but falls ill on the voyage home and is set off on the island of Gonsales is a Spaniard forced to flee the country after killing a man in a duel. Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (1610), but unlike Galileo, Godwin proposes that the dark spots on the Moon are seas, one of many parallels with Kepler's Somnium sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunari of 1634. Godwin's astronomical theories were greatly influenced by Although Copernicus is the only astronomer mentioned by name, the book also draws on the theories of The work is notable for its role in what was called the 'new astronomy', the branch of It was first published posthumously in 1638 under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales. Long considered to be one of his early works, it is now generally thought to have been written in the late 1620s. The Man in the Moone is a book by the Englishįrancis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a 'voyage of utopian discovery'. Luxembourg's Manfred Memorial Moon Mission attached a probe to China's Chang'e 5-T1 in 2014, and Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the moon in 2019.The Man in the Moone or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales Other countries that have successfully orbited the moon without landing on it are Japan (Hiten in 1990, Kaguya in 2007), the European Union (Smart-1 in 2003) and India (Chandrayaan-1 in 2008). China was also the second country to plant a flag on the moon's surface in 2020. The first was Chang'e 3 on December 1, 2013, which was the first object to land on the moon since the Soviet landing of Luna 24 in 1976. China (6 missions) - In the 21st century, China has sent a number of robotic vehicles to the moon.Apollo 8 was the first crewed flight to orbit the moon, and Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon in July 1969. Its first soft landing was with Surveyor 1, which launched on May 30, 1966. The United States (30 missions) - Ranger 4 was the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in a crash landing on April 23, 1962.The Soviets had 20 successful unmanned lunar missions overall. Luna 9 had the first successful soft (non-crash) landing on January 31, 1966. put Luna 2, the very first manmade object on the moon on September 13, 1959. The Soviet Union (20 missions) - The U.S.S.R.Countries that have landed lunar spacecraft are: So what countries have been to the moon? Three countries have successfully landed spacecraft on the surface of the moon, with the United States being the only country that has sent crewed missions to the moon. Evans (1933-1990) - command module pilot for Apollo 17 Mattingly II (1936-) - command module pilot for Apollo 16 Worden (1932-2020) - command module pilot for Apollo 15 Roosa (1933-1994) - command module pilot for Apollo 14 (1929-2017) - command module pilot for Apollo 12 Michael Collins (1930-) - command module pilot for Apollo 11.

These astronauts include those on the Apollo 13 mission, which had to abort its landing due to an explosion in the spacecraft, and the command module pilots of manned crews that orbited the moon while other astronauts landed on the surface. An additional twelve astronauts have orbited the moon but never touched down on its surface.

Man on the moon history