Yes it was launched on October 10, 1959.
Luna 2: September 12, 1959 Luna 3: October 7, 1959
Luna 9 was launched on January 31, 1966. So the Luna 9 went into space in the year 1966.
Luna 2 and Luna 3 were launched on September 12, 1959 and October 4 1959 and it started orbit the moon from September 13 1959 and October 6th 1959 respectively.
In September, 1959 ,the Soviet Union launched the Luna 2, the first mission to reach the moon. In October, 1959, it sent out Luna 3. As it orbited the moon, the Luna 3 transmitted pictures of the moon's hidden face for the first time. These pictures were of enormous historical and scientific importance.
Lucy Luna is 5' 3".
1966. Luna 10 was a robotic spacecraft mission, which was launched to the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966. It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon (or another heavenly body). The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 3, 1966. Luna 10 operated for 460 lunar orbits in total.
The spacecraft, their operators and dates are as follows:Luna 2 (OKB1, Soviet Union): impact 14 September 1959.Ranger 7 (NASA, USA): impact 30 July 1964.Ranger 8 (NASA, USA): impact 20 February 1965.Ranger 9 (NASA, USA): impact 24 March 1965.Luna 9 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): landed 3 February 1966.Surveyor 1 (NASA, USA): landed 2 June 1966.Luna 13 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): landed 24 December 1966.Surveyor 3 (NASA, USA): landed 20 April 1967.Surveyor 5 (NASA, USA): landed 11 September 1967.Surveyor 6 (NASA, USA): landed 10 November 1967.Surveyor 7 (NASA, USA): landed 10 January 1968.Apollo 11 (NASA, USA): landed 20 July 1969.Apollo 12 (NASA, USA): launched 14 November 1969.Luna 16 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union) launched 12 September 1970.Luna 17 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): launched 10 November 1970.Apollo 14 (NASA, USA): launched 31 January 1971.Apollo 15 (NASA, USA): launched 26 July 1971.Luna 20 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): launched 14 February 1972.Apollo 16 (NASA, USA): launched 16 April 1972.Apollo 17 (NASA, USA): launched 7 December 1972.Luna 21 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): launched 8 January 1973.Luna 24 (Lavochkin, Soviet Union): launched 9 August 1976.Moon Impact Probe (ISRO, India): launched 21 October 2008 .LCROSS (NASA, USA): launched 18 June 2009.Chang'e 3 (CNSA, PR China): launched 1 December 2013.These are craft which landed (or impacted) on the moon. There were many others which either went into orbit or flew by.
No, Luna 3 did not land on the moon.
The wifi model came out on April, 3, 2010. And the 3G model came out on April 30,2010.
The Space probe Luna 2 was sent by the Russian scientists in a bid to get their space probe to the moon before the Americans. Crash-landing in 1957, the Luna 2 landed on the Moon, but 10 years was still to got before the first human stepped onto the moon.
50 people in total at luna park
These spacecraft explored the Moon, which is not classed as a planet.