The Soviets launched a series of Luna probes that took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon. In 1966, Luna 9 made the first successful landing on the Moon and sent back television footage from the Moon's surface.
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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.
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?
Ranger 4 was the first American probe to strike the moon's surface.
Soviet Luna 2.
Neil Armstrong
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.
It was sent by the USSR. I think it was "Luna 9".
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?
Ranger 4 was the first American probe to strike the moon's surface.
Russia
The first man-made object to reach the moon was the Luna 2 probe in 1959.
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.
soviet Luna 2
It is the name of India's first moon probe.
Soviet Luna 2.
The first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959