It was sent by the USSR. I think it was "Luna 9".
The first man-made object to reach the moon was the Luna 2 probe in 1959.
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.
Yes, both the Russians and the Americans have landed 'probes' on the Moon. The Americans have also landed men there.
the space prob Huygens landed on Saturn's moon in the year 1932.
The first mission that successfully landed humans on the moon was the USA's Apollo 11, crewed by Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, and Michael Collins. They landed on July 24, 1969. The first probe to impact on the moon's surface was the Luna 2 space probe from the Soviet Union, which landed on September 14, 1959.
The first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959
No Indian Space Shuttle has ever landed on the moon. The only country that has ever physically landed on the moon is the United States.
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.
As far as has been publicly announced, man-made spacecraft have landedon the earth, on the moon, and on Mars.
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.
Neil Armstrong
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.