July 20 1969
The USA Space Shuttle is not capable of going to the moon. No robotic or manned moon craft was named Explorer. The first successful USA moon lander was called Ranger 7 and it touched down on the moon on July 28, 1964. The earlier Pioneer series of moon landers all failed to reach the moon and land. So did the first 6 Ranger craft. The USA Surveyor series of robotic spacecraft first touched down on the moon on May 30, 1966. In total, 7 Surveyor robotic spacecraft were launched toward the moon. Two failed and five were successful.
It was the surveyor spacecraft.
The Russian vehicle Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The first spacecraft on the moon was called Eagle. After the Jules verne spacecraft.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed 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.
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 .
Launched by the Saturn 5 rocket (the largest rocket ever built), the first spacecraft to take men to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft.
India's first moon mission sends the unmanned spacecraft is named Chandrayaan-1 to the moon.
Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon in 1966.
The first country to send a spacecraft to the moon was the Soviet Union with their Luna 2 mission in 1959.
The name of the US spacecraft that first landed on the moon was Apollo 11.