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Luna 10 was a robotic spacecraft mission, which was launched to the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966. It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon (or another heavenly body). The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 3, 1966. Luna 10 operated for 460 lunar orbits in total.
The USSR Luna 10, 1966
The first spacecraft to orbit the moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 10, which achieved lunar orbit on April 3, 1966. Luna 10 returned valuable data about the moon's magnetic field and radiation environment during its mission.
The Luna 10 (or Lunik 10) probe launched by Russia was the first lunar satellite. It was launched from earth orbit toward the moon on April 1st, 1966. Three days later, it went into orbit around the moon. A link is provided to the article posted by our friends at Wikipedia, where knowledge is free.
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So far only the USA have put a man on the Moon. I want to add that many other countries have sent unmanned probes and satellites to the moon. These countries are China (in 2007), Japan (in 1990 and in 2007) and USSR (January 1959 (Luna 1), September 1959 (Luna 2), October 1959 ( Luna 3), January 1966 (Luna 9), march 1966 (Luna 10),august 1966 (Luna 11), October 1966 (Luna 12), July 1969 (Luna 15), 1970 (Luna 16),1970 (Lunokhod 1), 1973 (Lunokhod 2) and in 1976 (Luna 24)).It is also important to note that the USSR was the first country to reach the moon. But the USA was the first country to send a man to the moon.
The first attempted launch of a lunar probe was Pioneer 0 (USA), which launched Aug 17, 1958, however, the booster exploded at 16km, never leaving Earth's atmosphere. The first successful lunar impact was Luna 2 (USSR) which launched July 18, 1959 and was designed to crash into the moon's surface. The fist successful soft laning on the moon was Luna 9 (USSR) which launched on January 31,1966 The first probe to go into lunar orbit was Luna 10 (USSR) which launched March 31, 1966
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 Space probe Luna 2 was sent by the Russian scientists in a bid to get their space probe to the moon before the Americans. Crash-landing in 1957, the Luna 2 landed on the Moon, but 10 years was still to got before the first human stepped onto the moon.
There were two Apollo missions that orbited the moon without landing. Apollo 8, carrying the first humans to ever be inside the gravitational influence of anything besides the earth, entered lunar orbit December 24, 1968. Apollo 10, as a dress rehearsal of the first landing, had the LM orbit all the way down to within 9 miles of the moon's surface, but did not actually land. The crew entered orbit May 22, 1969.
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"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." As spoken by Neil Armstrong from The Sea of Tranquility in 1969.The Lunar module was called Eagle.You just said it was called The Apollo 11 lunar module.