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“We were in love with every rocket, we desperately wanted it to blast off successfully. We would give our hearts and souls to see it flying.” Boris Chertok Good omens - the sort of things happening 10 years before men on the moon are happening again today.!!! OTD 4th January 1959 - 60 years ago- Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. Luna 1 was launched at 16:41 GMT on 2 January 1959 from Baikonur Cosmodrome by a Luna 8K72 rocket. Luna 1 became