President John F. Kennedy proposed a manned lunar program.

NASA's Ranger 7 produced the first close-up TV pictures of the lunar surface.

NASA's Lunar Orbiter missions completed photographic mapping of the moon.

NASA's Apollo 8 made the first crewed flight to the moon, circling it 10 times before returning to Earth.

The Apollo 11 mission made the first landing on the moon and returned samples.

Apollo 12 made the first precision landing on the moon.

Apollo 17 made the last crewed landing of the Apollo Program.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter, obtained multispectral images of the western limb and part of the far side of the moon.

NASA's Clementine mission conducted multispectral mapping of the moon.

NASA's Lunar Prospector mission launched.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched along with the LCROSS probe which crashed into the moon, revealing water ice.

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission mapped the moon's gravitational field in detail.

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) investigated the lunar atmosphere and dust.