The lunar module lands on the moon and it helps as a launch pad for the spacecraft to return to earth.
On February 3rd, 1966 the Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon.
The Soviet Union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
It's an unmanned robotic probe which is capable of performing a landing on a planet, moon, or asteroid autonomously.
China's first lunar probe landed on the moon in a controlled collision, this was the first phase of that nation's three-stage moon mission. The second stage involved sending a second probe to practice soft landings. The mission will culminate with the launch and landing of a rover on the moon to collect mineral samples in 2012. The probe -- Chang'e-1, named after a legendary moon goddess -- launched into space on October 24, 2007.
The Soviets launched a series of Luna probes that took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon. In 1966, Luna 9 made the first successful landing on the Moon and sent back television footage from the Moon's surface.
It is a craft on the moon.
The US landed the Viking probe.
There was no moon landing in 1994, the final moon landing occurred in December, 1972.
The space probe was invented so as to research and discover if life is possible outside the earth. The landing on the moon and the missions to mass are a great step towards finding more about whether life is sustainable outside the earth.
The moon landing was never faked at all.
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?