* 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

* 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U. S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.

Moon was credited as composer of " I Need You ", which he also sang, and the instrumental " Cobwebs and Strange " ( from the album A Quick One, 1966 ), the single B-sides " In The City " ( co-written by Moon and Entwistle ), " Dogs Part Two " ( 1969 ) ( sharing credits with Townshend's and Entwistle's dogs, Towser and Jason ), " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( 1969 ), " Waspman " ( 1972 ), and " Girl's Eyes " ( from The Who Sell Out sessions ; featured on Thirty Years of Maximum R & B and a 1995 re-release of The Who Sell Out ).

On 17 March 1966, Moon secretly married his pregnant girlfriend Kim Kerrigan.

The group never formed, although Page, Beck and Moon did record a song together in 1966, " Beck's Bolero ", in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

This has been thought to make it suitable for human – computer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ).

* 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

* In Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, computer technician Manuel Davis blames a real bug for a ( non-existent ) failure of supercomputer Mike, presenting a dead fly as evidence.

* Down Where the Moon is Small ( 1966 ) – Huw's life in Argentina

In 2008, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project ( LOIRP ) was given space in the old McDonalds ( the building has since been renamed to McMoons ) to digitize data tapes from the five 1966 and 1967 Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon.

* Down Where the Moon is Small ( 1966 )

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.

* 1966 – The Luna 9 Moon lander provides the first images from the surface of another celestial body

It made a later appearance in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories published in 1966, in Expanded Universe in 1980, and in a Baen edition of " The Man Who Sold The Moon ", ISBN 0-671-65623-6, 1987.

Pájaro lunar ( Moon Bird ), 1966, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid

In July 1966, Komarov was reprimanded by Kamanin for his unauthorised disclosure that "… the Soviet Union will, at the scheduled time, fly an automated spacecraft around the Moon and return it to ( the ) Earth, to be followed by a dog flight, then a manned circumlunar flight ".

The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.

* Surveyor 2 – 20 September 1966 – Attempted lunar lander ( crashed into Moon )

Surveyor 1 was launched May 30, 1966, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and it landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966.

Surveyor 1 was launched May 30, 1966, and sent directly into a trajectory to the Moon without any parking orbit.

Surveyor 1 transmitted video data from from the Moon beginning shortly after its landing, through July 14, 1966 — but with a period of no operations during the long lunar night of June 14, 1966, through July 7, 1966.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

From 1966 to 1969, she worked as a physician at the Directorate of Health ( Helsedirektoratet ), and from 1969 she worked as a doctor in Oslo's public school health service.

:: Mostly worked on by Jan from 1966 to 1968 the album was shelved by Warner Brothers for 44 years.

Woody Gelman discovered many of the original strips at a cartoon studio where McCay's son worked in 1966.

Between August 1966 and May 1970, he worked as a tutor for a Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ).

In 1966 he worked shortly in television under the auspices of NASA.

Her father, Joseph Smith, worked for United Press International in Paris and moved to Washington, D. C., United States in 1966, where he became The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first official obituary editor.

Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist / vocalist briefly played with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966 ; the two also had worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse ( which also included Steve Winwood and Paul Jones ).

Like many European manufacturers, collaboration with other firms increased ; Peugeot worked with Renault from 1966 and Volvo from 1972.

: I think that the most fun I had programming was a summer job at Project MAC at MIT in the summer of 1966, where I worked on a program that created a job tape for the brand new GE 645 in the earliest days of Multics.

She worked there with her future husband, František Hrabal ( b. 1889-d. 5 June 1966 ); a František Hrabal was listed as Bohumil's godfather when he was baptised on 4 February 1914, but František was also the first name of Bohumil's future step-grandfather, a soft-drinks trader.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

Beginning in 1966 he advocated nuclear disarmament, and worked as a consultant to the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1966 to 1968 evaluating the International Atomic Energy Agency in regard to nuclear non-proliferation.

In 1966 Woody Gelman discovered many of the original Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where Bob McCay, Winsor's son, had worked.

Between 1966 and 1974, Hung worked on over 30 wuxia films for Shaw Brothers, progressing through the roles of extra, stuntman, stunt co-ordinator and ultimately, action director.

In 1952, the Industrial Foundation was established and its trustees worked to bring new industry to town: Moore Plant in 1966, Mercury Marine in 1973, National Standard plant in 1988, World Color Press in 1974 and Armstrong World Industries, Inc. in 1988.

In 1966 Beckett worked with a young director, Marin Karmitz ( an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard as well as Roberto Rossellini ), on a film version of Play, resulting in the film, Comédie.

He worked outside his usual range on the science-fiction thriller Seconds ( 1966 ).

He worked as a ghost artist for a few weeks in 1966 on the comic strip Peter Scratch ( 1965 – 1967 ), a hardboiled detective serial created by writer Elliot Caplin and artist Lou Fine.

From 1966 to 1967, Swede was a psychology instructor at Vancouver City College, after which he worked as a school psychologist at the Scarborough Board of Education in Toronto until 1968.

A number of these were worked into the GE Porta-Color set of 1966, which was an enormous success.

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ForMemRS (; February 27, 1881 – December 2, 1966 ), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.