LUNA 15 by The Moondig

This album was recorded on 12 July 2022,
exactly 53 years after the eve
of the launch of LUNA 15
(13 July 1969, 02:54:42 UTC)

LUNA 15:
Robotic Soviet spacecraft.
Second Soviet attempt to return lunar soil
back to Earth for the first time ever.
Moondig pioneer!

Eight days later, LUNA 15 began its descent to the lunar surface,
exactly the same day when the Apollo 11 astronauts finished the first human moonwalk.
LUNA 15 lander crashed into the Moon at 15:50 UT, hours before the scheduled American lift off from the Moon.

In a race to reach the Moon and return to Earth, the parallel missions of LUNA 15 and Apollo 11 represented, in many ways, the culmination of the Space Race between the space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s.

On its voyage
of discovery,
The Moondig intercepts
musical messages that interconnect
the various spaces
of the free mind.