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.
The first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959
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.
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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 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
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.
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.
It was sent by the USSR. I think it was "Luna 9".