Our Startling First Glimpse of the Far Side of the Moon

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Since the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, for millennia we could only guess what mysteries lay on its “dark side.” Then in 1959 the Luna 3 spacecraft sent back a photo that prompted more questions than it answered.

Host: Caitlin Hofmeister

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