The first spacecraft to reach the moon

*The Luna1

*History

*The luna1 spacecraft was launched on January 2,1959 at 4:41.

*The Luna1 is a soviet launched spacecraft

*It was the first craft to achieve escape velocity

*The luna1 was the worlds biggest failed spacecraft ever

*Mission

*The mission was not as amazing as its failure

*Luna1 passed by the moon in 1959

* It took 2 days to pass by the moon in the luna1

*The Luna1’s mission was to pass by the moon

*The luna1 is made out of metal and a special type of rubber

*It is supposed to be able to withstand lava

*It took a very long time to make the luna1

*All the stuff the there is people made

*Structure

*Manned or Un-manned

*The luna1 is an Un-manned space

*The luna1 was controlled by a person while it was in space

*The luna1 was a soviet launched spacecraft

*Facts

*The luna1 is orbiting the sun right now

*It takes 450 days to complete 1 circuit

*It was a failure a big one too

*It was not the first failure in the space race

* Facts

*Luna1 was the first space craft to reach the moon

*The five antennae extended from one hemisphere

*The Luna program was 1 of 2 lunar exploration programs conducted by the soviet union

* Facts

*The spacecraft is sphere shaped

*Instrument ports also protruded from the surface of the sphere

* Pictures

* The Team

Brea Knight, David Gomez, Mary Jackson

*Resource sites

*www.io9.com/

*www.zarya.info

*www.lunar.arc

*www.nasa.gov

*www.mit.edu

*www.zarya.info