There was no space shuttle involved in the first lunar landing.
The names of the first lunar landing astronauts were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
The first lunar landing was by the unmanned Russian Luna 2 on September 13 1959. Though the vehicle impacted, it was not a controlled descent. Luna 9 on 31 Jan 1966 was the first soft unmanned landing. Surveyor 1 on 30 May 1966 was the first US unmanned soft landing 20 July 1969 first manned moon landing. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon the following day.
Apollo 11Apollo 11 was the name of the first moon landing mission.
It proved a soft landing was possible, and that the lunar surface would support the weight of a lander. There was some concern the lunar surface might be of such thick and fluffy dust as to allow a lander to sink into it.
Luna 9
There was no space shuttle involved in the first lunar landing.
The names of the first lunar landing astronauts were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
The first lunar landing was by the unmanned Russian Luna 2 on September 13 1959. Though the vehicle impacted, it was not a controlled descent. Luna 9 on 31 Jan 1966 was the first soft unmanned landing. Surveyor 1 on 30 May 1966 was the first US unmanned soft landing 20 July 1969 first manned moon landing. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon the following day.
The first soft landing on the moon was Surveyor 1, which landed on June 2, 1966 at 2:17 PM ET. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1. They turned off the engines when the lunar lander when it was 3.4 meters above the lunar surface, and it free fell from there. This beat out the Soviet Luna 9 mission by 4 months. The first soft landing manned mission was Apollo 11 which landed on July 20, 1969 at 4:17 PM ET
The first landing was by the USSR in 1959 when they crashed landed Luna 2. The first soft landing with the aid of rockets came in 1966 when the USSR landed Luna 9 The first manned landing was when the US landed Apollo 11 in 1969
Sea of Tranquility
Apollo 11Apollo 11 was the name of the first moon landing mission.
It proved a soft landing was possible, and that the lunar surface would support the weight of a lander. There was some concern the lunar surface might be of such thick and fluffy dust as to allow a lander to sink into it.
The first manned landing was July 20, 1969.
None. Apollo 11 was the first attempted (and first successful) manned lunar landing.
The first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon was the surveyor 1 spacecraft in 1966.