Exploration of the Moon and indeed of human history in general. The first man-made object to reach the Moon was the unmanned Soviet probe Luna 2, which made a hard landing on September 14, 1959, at 21:02:24 Z. The far side of the Moon was first photographed on October 7, 1959, by the Soviet probe Luna 3. Though vague by today's standards, the photos showed that the far side of the Moon almost completely lacked maria. In an effort to compete with these Soviet successes, U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed the national goal of landing a human on the Moon. Speaking to a
Object to Be Destroyed limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow. 1932 was the year Man Ray's lover, Lee Miller, left him to return to New York. To make the connection to Miller more explicit, the object's original eye was replaced with a photo of hers. This metronome was exhibited for the first time at Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris, as "Eye-Metronome" in 1933. Subsequent exhibitions called the piece "Lost Object", 1945, "Last Object", 1966 and "Perpetual Motif", 1972. Man Ray stated that he had always intended to destroy it one day, but as a public