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which country landed on the moon first

The first country to land on the Moon was the Soviet Union (USSR).

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  • In September 1959, the USSR’s Luna 2 became the first human-made object to reach the Moon by crashing into its surface, counting as the first Moon landing.
  • In February 1966, the USSR’s Luna 9 achieved the first successful soft landing on the Moon, making the Soviet Union the first country to land a spacecraft gently on the lunar surface.
  • The United States later became the first country to land humans on the Moon with Apollo 11 in July 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface.

So, if the question is “which country landed on the Moon first,” the answer is the Soviet Union, through its Luna missions, several years before the first American crewed landing.

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