The Russian vehicle Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The first spacecraft on the moon was called Eagle. After the Jules verne spacecraft.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed in 1966
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.
In 1962 on the 26th of April, Ranger IV landed on the moon but was unsuccessful in sending back pictures because of technical faults. This was the first American spacecraft to reach the moon. The first spacecraft to reach the moon was the Luna 2 from the USSR in 1959 .
Launched by the Saturn 5 rocket (the largest rocket ever built), the first spacecraft to take men to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft.
India's first moon mission sends the unmanned spacecraft is named Chandrayaan-1 to the moon.
Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon in 1966.
The first country to send a spacecraft to the moon was the Soviet Union with their Luna 2 mission in 1959.
The name of the US spacecraft that first landed on the moon was Apollo 11.
The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.
The first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon was Apollo 8, which launched on December 21, 1968. It was the second manned mission in the Apollo program and made ten orbits around the moon before returning safely to Earth.