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The first unmanned craft to reach the moon was the Russian Luna 2 on September 15 1959. This neither orbited or soft-landed, but crashed into the surface. The first actual unmanned soft-landing was Luna 9 on 3 February 1966.

The first manned spacecraft to reach the moon was the US Apollo 8 mission modules which entered lunar orbit on 24 December 1968.

The first manned craft to land was the US Apollo 11 lunar module 'Eagle' which landed in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20 1969.

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