Sentences with phrase «robotic spacecraft made»

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The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 December 1972, and the last robotic Soviet spacecraft to make it to the surface was in 1976.

I hope we will begin to show some of the greater boldness that we showed in the 1960s and 1970s, with missions more like Voyager, Pioneer, and Apollo, using robotic spacecraft where appropriate, where the risk to life can be prevented, and confining our human missions to areas where we can make a special contribution.