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The first Luna spacecraft was launched by the Soviet Union (Russia) in 1959. Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
The Soviet Union (USSR)
The first unmanned spacecraft, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. It marked the beginning of the space age and initiated the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Russian vehicle Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The first country to send a spacecraft to the moon was the Soviet Union with their Luna 2 mission in 1959.
The first rocket to get near the moon was the Soviet Luna 1 spacecraft in 1959. Later that year, the Soviet Luna 2 spacecraft was the first manmade object to reach the surface of the moon.
Venus was "hit" by the soviet Venera 3 in 1966.
Sputnik
Sputnik
The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2, which successfully impacted the lunar surface on September 13, 1959.
The first spacecraft to orbit the Earth was called Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957.
The first spacecraft to land on the moon was called the Eagle, after the novel of Jules Verne called From the earth to the moon.