Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed in 1966
The Russian vehicle Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The first American spacecraft to land on the moon was called Apollo 11. It landed on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first humans to walk on the moon.
The first American craft to soft-land on the moon was the Surveyor lunar probe.The first actual space craft to land on the moon was the Luna 2 made by the Soviet Union in 1959. The first manned ship to land on the moon was the Apollo 11 in 1969.
Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon 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.
Apollo 8 was the first spacecraft to go around the moon and to return to earth. The astronauts were Frank Borman , James Lovell, and William Anders.
Luna 9 was the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the moon on February 3, 1966. Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon on July 20, 1969 with 2 US astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
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 .
Yes. Apollo 11 was the first Apollo mission to successfully land on the moon, but it was not the first ever US spacecraft to land on the moon, though it was the first spacecraft to successfully carry people to the moon.
Luna 9.
It was the surveyor spacecraft.
Apollo 11 consisted of the command module that was known as Columbia and the lunar module that landed on the Moon was called Eagle.