There have been six manned missions to successfully land on the moon:
1. Year - 1969 / Space Craft - Eagle Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 11 / Crew: Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
2. Year - 1969 / Space Craft - Intrepid Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 12 / Crew: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Alan L. Bean
3. Year - 1971 / Space Craft - Antares Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 14 / Crew: Alan Shepard Jr., Edgar Mitchell
4. Year - 1971 / Space Craft - Falcon Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 15 / Crew: Dave Scott, Jim Irwin
5. Year - 1972 / Space Craft - Orion Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 16 / Crew: John Young, Charles Duke
6. Year - 1972 / Space Craft - Challenger Lunar Module / Mission - Apollo 17 / Crew: Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt
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The first spacecraft to visit the moon was Luna 2 in 1959, followed by the first manned mission, Apollo 11 in 1969.
The Russians have never landed on the moon
The spacecraft that visited the moon was called Apollo.
The spacecraft that first visited the moon was named Luna 2, launched by the Soviet Union in 1959.
Yes, several spacecraft have visited different planets and moons within our solar system. For example, the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Neptune in 1989, the Juno spacecraft is currently studying Jupiter, and the Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2012.
Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon in 1966.