Pioneer 2 impacted the Moon

When Pioneer 2 the American spacecraft impacted the Moon..

Timeline
1912: British ship Titanic is set for transatlantic voyage. Before that the ship's second officer David Blair was removed from the rooster, but he managed to hand the key to the locker containing a binocular to his replacement. This would help Titanic to avoid icebergs and arrive New York safely. Point of Divergence.

October 4, 1957: USSR launched Sputnik 1 into space, which is the first artificial satellite.

October 11, 1958: NASA's spacecraft Pioneer 1 is launched. After flying by the moon instead of orbit insertion as planned, the space probe became the first man made object to enter interplanetary space. Although this mission is seen as a partial success since it did not went into lunar orbit, this is seen as a major milestone to upstage the Russians after the humiliation suffered during Sputnik 1.

November 8, 1958: NASA spacecraft Pioneer 2 is launched and would became the first to crash to the Moon.

1959: Luna 3 is the first spacecraft to photograph the far side of the moon as in OTL.

October 1960: The twin missions Marsnik 1 and 2 is launched to the namesake target which is a success in this TL. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev displayed the models of the spacecrafts at the UN building afterwards, and eventually the twin probes will reach the target and send back first images of Mars.

January 1961: The U.S. launched the first hominid "Ham" into space.

March 24, 1961: NASA astronaut is the first man in space, with a suborbital flight of the Freedom 7 space capsule.

April 12, 1961: USSR's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into orbit.

April 17, 1961: The Bays of Pigs invasion against Cuba by the United States commences, though it will ultimately fail.

May 25, 1961: As in OTL, U.S. President Kennedy delivers the moonshot speech in the Congress. In response the USSR ordered the preparation for their own moonshot as well.

July 21, 1961: NASA astronaut Gus Grissom is the second American in space, although his space capsule sunk into ocean after splashdown as in OTL.

August 1961: The Berlin Wall construction is started.

February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

July 22, 1962: U.S. spacecraft Mariner 1 is launched as the first American mission to flyby a planet. It will return first images of the planet Venus.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[1917,2002,0,0]}">August 27, 1962: Mariner 2 is launched as a successor of the Mariner 1 mission.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[1917,2002,0,0]}">Circa 1963:

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2004,2064,0,0]}">Late 1963: NASA's Project Mercury spaceflight program came to an end after the conclusion of Mercury-Atlas 10 mission, with Alan Shepard as the crew. President Kennedy is assasinated as in OTL.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2066,2127,0,0]}">1965: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2129,2243,0,0]}">1966: USSR cosmonaut Irina Solovyova became the first woman to conduct a spacewalk in the Voskhod 5 mission.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2245,2341,0,0]}">1967: In this TL the Soyuz 1 tragedy didn't happen at all. Apollo 1 ends up in a disaster.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2343,2392,0,0]}">1968: NASA's Apollo 8 flew around the Moon.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2394,2464,0,0]}">July 4, 1969: The test firing of Soviet N1 rocket is successful.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2466,2556,0,0]}">July 20, 1969: NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first human to land on the Moon.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2558,2862,0,0]}">1970: A Soyuz 7K-LOK spaceship carrying Alexei Leonov and Vladimir Komarov flew around the Moon. This alone caused a major shock to Americans regardless of Apollo 11. Meanwhile NASA began the preparations to conduct a manned flyby of the planet Venus, while the Apollo 13 in this TL is successful.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[2864,3151,0,0]}">1971: Soviet Union launched the Salyut 1 space station. On October, Alexei Leonov became the first Soviet citizen to step foot on the Moon after landing with an LK (Lunniy Korabl) spacecraft. Later on they launched the second manned moon landing mission to the Luna 9 landing site.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1972: USSR shocked the world again by putting the first woman on the Moon when Irina Solovyova became the sole landing crew of their third manned lunar landing mission.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1973: Launch of NASA's Skylab space station.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1974: Unlike in OTL, NASA launched Pioneer H into the interstellar space. USSR landed a man in the lunar south pole. The Apollo mission concluded with Apollo 20 landing at the Tycho crater.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1989: NASA interplanetary probe "Galileo" is launched to Jupiter.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1991: The Soviet Union and most of the Communist World collapses.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1996: NASA Mars probe Sojourner is launched.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">1998: The debut of International Space Station

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">2008: Barack Obama is elected as the first black President of the United States.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">2010: In this TL NASA's Constellation program is not canceled by the USA. Japanese spacecraft IKAROS became the world's first interplanetary solar sail spacecraft.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">2011: Rocketplane Kistler is the first commerical spacecraft to dock with ISS. SpaceX will repeat the feat one year after.

<p data-parsoid="{"dsr":[3153,3416,0,0]}">2015: NASA's Orion spacecraft reaches ISS after a long hiatus.