On February 3rd, 1966 the Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon.
The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?
The Luna 16 was the first space probe to fly past the moon. The Lunokhod 1 was the first rover on the moon. It was sent to the Moon on November 10, 1970.
The first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959
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The Soviet Union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
The first man-made object to reach the moon was the Luna 2 probe in 1959.
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.
the Luna series...
because the moon is the earth's nearest neighbor
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.
The space probe was invented so as to research and discover if life is possible outside the earth. The landing on the moon and the missions to mass are a great step towards finding more about whether life is sustainable outside the earth.