Αυτές είναι οι 9 χώρες που έχουν “πατήσει” στη Σελήνη
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Από τις απαρχές της ανθρωπότητας η Σελήνη μας καλεί να ανακαλύψουμε τα μυστικά της.
Μόνο εννέα έθνη (ή πολιτικές ενώσεις) έχουν βρεθεί στη Σελήνη, στην τροχιά της ή στη “γειτονιά” της ως μέρος μιας επιτυχημένης ή ημι-επιτυχημένης αποστολής.
Πρόσφατα, η Ινδία πραγματοποίησε ομαλή προσγείωση στο φεγγάρι – στις 23 Αυγούστου 2023- ως μέρος της αποστολής Chandrayaan-3, κάτι που της δίνει μια θέση ανάμεσα στις χώρες με ισχυρή παρουσία στο διάστημα.
Στην παρακάτω λίστα θα ρίξουμε μια ματιά στα κράτη που κατάφεραν να έρθουν πιο κοντά στη Σελήνη.
Πηγή: Statista
9. Ιταλία
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8. Νότια Κορέα
epa10106603 South Koreans watch a television boradcasting a news program detailing the launch of South Korea's first lunar orbiter, called Danuri; in Seoul, South Korea, 05 August 2022. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying South Korea's first lunar orbiter lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the United States on 04 August. EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN
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7. Λουξεμβούργο
epa08858503 A handout photo made available by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft lander-ascender combination probe guttering samples on the moon on 03 December 2020. According to media reports, China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully completed its mission collecting samples on the previously unexplored part of the moon where it landed on 01 December 2020 and its now preparing to carry back the world’s first lunar samples in four decades. EPA/CHINA NATIONAL SPACE ADMINISTRAT HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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6. Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση
epa10572353 Visitors watch the broadcast of the second launch attempt of the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Ariane 5 rocket transporting the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), from the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana, at University of Bern, Switzerland, 14 April 2023. The mission's liftoff was delayed on 13 April due to weather conditions at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The launch was rescheduled for 14 April at 14:14 CEST. Following launch, Juice embarked on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, expected to arrive in July 2031. The mission will make detailed observations of the gas giant and its three moons (Ganymede, Callisto and Europa), explore Jupiter's environment and study its wider system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe. Flight VA 260 will be the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space. EPA/ANTHONY ANEX
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5. Ινδία
epa10815663 Indian students and families gather as they watch the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) live telecast of the Chandrayaan-3 Mission landing on the Moon, in Kolkata, India 23 August 2023. Chandrayaan-3 is the third and most recent Indian lunar exploration mission under the Chandrayaan program of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and India became only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a mission when the craft landed near the Moon's south pole on 23 August. EPA/PIYAL ADHIKARY
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4. Ιαπωνία
epa01172467 The earth is seen closing to the moon's horizon in this picture dated 7 November 2007 from an HDTV image released on 13 November 2007 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Japan's national broadcaster NHK. The JAXA and NHK have performed the world's first high-definition image of the earth rising and setting by the lunar explorer 'SELENE' which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on 18 October 2007. EPA/HO THE COPYRIGHT MARK AND LETTERS ARE ORIGINALLY PLACED AND REQUESTED TO BE KEPT BY JAXA AND NHK, CREDIT MANDATORY, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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3. Κίνα
epa01155090 A Long March-3A carrier rocket launched the lunar satellite Chang'e-I moon probe as part of China's programme to land a rover on the moon around 2012, from the Xichang space centre in the south-western province of Sichuan, China on 24 October 2007 just after 6 pm (1000 GMT). The probe was scheduled to begin moving away from an initial orbit
around the Earth on October 31 and complete its manoeuvre into a
lunar orbit on November 5. A successful mission by the Chang'e-I would complete the first of three stages of China's planned lunar exploration programme. EPA/WU HONG
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2. ΕΣΣΔ
epa07672243 (FILE) - A visitor passes in front of picture of Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of the USSR, inside the Vostok 1 command capsule that is on a display at the exhibition 'The way of Gagarin - Achievement of Russian manned cosmonautics' in Moscow, Russia, 08 April 2011 (re-issued 25 June 2019). On 12 April 1961, Gagarin performed a space flight aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft, orbiting Earth in 108 minutes and landing safely near Smelovka village in the Saratov Region's Ternovsky District, Russia.
The Soviet Union's 04 October 1957 launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite during the Cold War period (1947-91) between the United States and the USSR is regarded as the start of man's space exploration era, or the so-called 'Race to Space'. The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, an event seen as the peak of the United States’ space program of the 1960s and which put an end to the Space Race between Cold War rivals the US and the Soviet Union, that was triggered by the Sputnik launch. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa07672239 *** Local Caption *** 02675967
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epa01797778 A NASA handout photo dated 20 July 1969 showing Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin standing by the US flag planted on the surface of the moon. On 20 July 2009 the world marks forty years since the first human set foot on the moon. In 1961, US President John F. Kennedy had a challenge for NASA -- to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The first Apollo missions were spent getting ready for the moon landing. Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 even flew all the way to the moon, around it, and back to Earth. Apollo 11 traveled to the moon and arrived in lunar orbit on 19 July 1969. EPA/NASA/HO EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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