No, America was the first to land a man on the moon when Neil Armstrong stepped off the lunar landing module Eagle and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969.
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No, the Russians did not reach the moon. The United States was the first and only country to have successfully landed astronauts on the moon as part of the Apollo program in 1969. The Soviet Union did achieve significant milestones in space exploration, but they did not land astronauts on the moon.
No. The only Russian / Soviet moon missions used robot landers that sent samples back to Earth in smaller rocket vehicles.
The first, and so far the only, scientist to land on the surface of the moon was an American.
Moonlight takes 1 min 3 seconds to reach earth.
1.27 seconds
The phases of the Moon when none of the Sun's rays reach the surface are called "new moon" phases. This occurs when the Moon is directly between the Earth and the Sun, so the side of the Moon facing Earth is not illuminated.
No country reached the moon in 1995. The first unmanned mission was a launched by the Soviet Union in 1959. The first manned mission to the moon was an American Mission in 1969.
It takes approximately 7.4 days from a full moon to reach the third quarter phase.