Ranger 7
Ranger 7 took its first close-up pictures of the Moon on July 31, 1964. This spacecraft was the first to transmit high-resolution images of the lunar surface, capturing over 4,000 pictures before it impacted the Moon. The mission significantly contributed to lunar exploration and paved the way for future missions.
In September, 1959 ,the Soviet Union launched the Luna 2, the first mission to reach the moon. In October, 1959, it sent out Luna 3. As it orbited the moon, the Luna 3 transmitted pictures of the moon's hidden face for the first time. These pictures were of enormous historical and scientific importance.
The first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon was the surveyor 1 spacecraft in 1966.
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 .
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.
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.