Five more Apollo moon landings would follow before the program ended in 1972.

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Between 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the moon to capture images before the arrival of Apollo 11, which landed on the lunar suface July 20, 1969.

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On Dec. 6, Alaska's State Museum in Juneau debuted an exhibit of the five recently returned fragments of the moon, which in 1969 were encased together in a lucite sphere and mounted to a wooden podium for presentation to Alaska by then-President Richard Nixon.

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P5 brings Pluto's known satellite tally to five, and it comes just a year after Hubble spotted moon number four, the similarly diminutive P4.

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After that, during this five year period China also plans to send a rover to the Moon, collect samples, and then return to Earth.

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But five years ago, NASA was tasked with returning to the moon by 2020, rerunning the moon race that we won 40 years ago.

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Once the two GRAIL satellites are in orbit, their next step is to begin a five week phase in which they increase the speed at which they orbit the Moon.

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The next five years will also see China paving the way towards putting a human being on the Moon, making it only the second country to have done so.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Austria from a five-nation visit to Central Asian countries on Wednesday, 7 April.

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