That depends on your definition of "conquer". If by this you mean someone walked on it, that would be July 1969.
If you mean "take over and control", that has not yet occured.
2007-02-11 03:48:08
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answered by Vincent G 7
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While the first human to walk on the Moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969, the first man-made object to reach the Moon was a Russian spacecraft that crashed there deliberately ten years earlier. The Russians were also the first to fly behind the Moon and photograph the far side (from an unmanned spacecraft). The USA didn't get there until Apollo 8.
2007-02-11 16:25:12
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answered by tentofield 7
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The battle still rages between man and Moon Men (loonies). Man say he hope to complete take over by June. Film at 11.
Man first landed on the moon in July of 1969, and found very little to conquor.
2007-02-11 13:49:25
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answered by Walking Man 6
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Man landed on the moon in 1969
2007-02-11 11:52:23
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answered by David P 3
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The United States landed 2 men on the moon in July of 1969. It wasn't exactly a conquest since they came in peace and there wasn't anyone there to begin with.
2007-02-11 11:48:45
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answered by rb42redsuns 6
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men never conquered the moon. they visit it though in july 1969
2007-02-11 11:50:09
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answered by ♥ 3
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The first leap in lunar observation was caused by the invention of the telescope. Galileo Galilei made especially good use of this new instrument and observed mountains and craters on the Moon's surface.
The Cold War-inspired space race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America led to an acceleration of interest in the Moon. Unmanned probes, both flyby and impact/lander missions, were sent almost as soon as launcher capabilities would allow. The Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft. The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1, the first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded Far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966.[1] Moon samples have been brought back to Earth by three Luna missions (Luna 16, 20, and 24) and the Apollo missions 11 through 17 (excepting Apollo 13, which aborted its planned lunar landing).
What was the next big step depends on the political viewpoint: in the US (and the western world in general) the landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969 is seen as the culmination of the space race[citation needed]. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon as the commander of the American mission Apollo 11 by first setting foot on the Moon at 02:56 UTC on July 21, 1969. The last person (as of 2007) to stand on the Moon was Eugene Cernan, who as part of the mission Apollo 17 walked on the Moon in December 1972. The USA Moon landing and return was enabled by several technologies where the US surpassed the Russians; for example, the US achieved considerable advances in ablation chemistry and atmospheric re-entry technology in the early 1960s.
Scientific instrument packages were installed on the lunar surface during all of the Apollo missions. Long-lived ALSEP stations (Apollo lunar surface experiment package) were installed at the Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landing sites, whereas a temporary station referred to as EASEP (Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package) was installed during the Apollo 11 mission. The ALSEP stations contained, among others, heat flow probes, seismometers, magnetometers, and corner-cube retroreflectors. Transmission of data to Earth was terminated on September 30 1977 because of budgetary considerations. Since the lunar laser ranging (LLR) corner-cube arrays are passive instruments, they are still being used to today. Ranging to the LLR stations is routinely performed from earth-based stations with an accuracy of a few centimeters, and data from this experiment are being used to place constraints on the size of the lunar core.[41]
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, there were a total of 65 Moon landings (both manned and robotic, with 10 in 1971 alone), but after Luna 24 in 1976 they stopped. The Soviet Union started focusing on Venus and space stations and the US on Mars and beyond. In 1990 Japan orbited the Moon with the Hiten spacecraft, becoming the third country to place a spacecraft into lunar orbit. The spacecraft released a smaller probe, Hagormo, in lunar orbit, but the transmitter failed rendering the mission scientifically useless.
In 1994, the US finally returned to the Moon, robotically at least, sending the Joint Defense Department/NASA spacecraft Clementine. This mission obtained the first near global topographic map of the Moon, as well as the first global multispectral images of the lunar surface. This was followed by the Lunar Prospector mission in 1998. The neutron spectrometer on Lunar Prospector indicated the presence of excess hydrogen at the lunar poles, which is likely due to the presence of water ice in the upper few meters of the regolith within permanently shadowed craters. The European spacecraft Smart 1 was launched September 27, 2003 and was in lunar orbit from November 15, 2004 to September 3, 2006.
On January 14, 2004, US President George W. Bush called for a plan to return manned missions to the Moon by 2020 (see Vision for Space Exploration).[42] NASA is now planning for the construction of a permanent outposts at one of the lunar poles.[43] The People's Republic of China has expressed ambitious plans for exploring the Moon and has started the Chang'e program for lunar exploration. Japan has two planned lunar missions, LUNAR-A and Selene. India intends to launch several unmanned missions, beginning with Chandrayaan I in February 2008, followed by Chandaryaan II in 2010 or 2011; the latter is slated to include a robotic lunar rover. The US will launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008. Russia also announced to resume its previously frozen project Luna-Glob, consisting of an unmanned lander and orbiter, which is slated to land in 2012.
2007-02-12 00:16:20
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answered by razov 2
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in 1969 Neel Armstrong was the first person
2007-02-12 01:08:17
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answered by Rajesh 3
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1969. But people rumour it was all a fake and man never actually landed there. But to prove that rumour, you would have to ask NASA and they would be stupid to tell the truth...
2007-02-11 12:01:11
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answered by Anonymous
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can u conquer the moon? i dont think its possible.
2007-02-11 11:49:40
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answered by purimani2005 4
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