The First Ten Unmanned Moon Landings to Have Taken Place

While most people can name at least one moon landing with humans involved before man ever set foot on the surface of the moon there were several unmanned missions and here are the ten first every moon landings that were done by machine alone…   The First Ten Unmanned Moon Landings to Have Taken Place   10 – Luna 9, USSR – Moon Impact Date: 31st January 1966 Info: Luna 9 internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union’s Luna programme. On 3 February 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, or any planetary body other than Earth and to transmit photographic data to Earth