1959 First Man-Made Object Successfully Lands on the Moon (Luna 2)
Luna 2 was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon, E-1 No.7. It was originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and was nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media. It was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon's surface and the first human-made object to communicate with another celestial body.The Luna 8K72 s/n I1-7B rocket launched the spacecraft on September 12, 1959. It took a direct route to the Moon.
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