The USSR's Luna 2, launched 12 Sep, 1959. It was destroyed on impact (as designed)
The first space probe to fly past the moon was the Soviet Luna 1 probe in 1959. Luna 1, also known as Mechta, was intended to impact the moon but missed and became the first human-made object to escape Earth's gravity.
The first man-made object to reach the moon was the Luna 2 probe in 1959.
The first space probe to fly past the Moon was the Soviet Luna 1 spacecraft in 1959. Luna 1 was intended to impact the Moon, but instead, it missed the Moon and became the first human-made object to enter orbit around the Sun.
The first American probe to strike the Moon's surface was the Ranger 4 spacecraft in 1962. Ranger 4 was part of the Ranger program, which aimed to capture close-up images of the Moon's surface for scientific study.
There wasn't a probe when man landed on the moon. Instead, he walked on the moon July 1969 with the Apollo space program for NASA.
soviet Luna 2
It is the name of India's first moon probe.
Neil Armstrong
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 first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959
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.
because the moon is the earth's nearest neighbor