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How many moon lands have there been?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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There have been six manned moon landings -

  • Apollo 11 landed 20 July 1969
  • Apollo 12 landed 19 November 1969
  • Apollo 14 landed 5 February 1971
  • Apollo 15 landed 30 July 1971
  • Apollo 16 landed 20 April 1972
  • Apollo 17 landed 11 December 1972

There have been numerous unmanned moon landings, 13 soft landings are listed as well as 26 crash landings. Crash landings listed include retired satellites and orbiters, impactors, as well as failed soft landings.

USSR probes

  1. Luna 2 crashed 13 September 1959
  2. Luna 5 crashed 12 May 1965
  3. Luna 7 crashed 7 October 1965
  4. Luna 8 crashed 6 December 1965
  5. Luna 9 landed 3 February 1966
  6. Luna 13 landed 24 December 1966
  7. Luna 15 crashed 21 July 1969
  8. Luna 16 landed 20 September 1970
  9. Luna 17 landed 17 November 1970
  10. Luna 18 crashed 11 September 1971
  11. Luna 20 landed 21 February 1972
  12. Luna 21 landed 15 January 1973
  13. Luna 23 landed 6 November 1974
  14. Luna 24 landed 18 August 1976

NASA / US probes

  1. Ranger 4 crashed 26 April 1962
  2. Ranger 6 crashed 2 February 1964
  3. Ranger 7 crashed 31 July 1964
  4. Ranger 8 crashed 20 February 1965
  5. Ranger 9 crashed 24 March 1965
  6. Surveyor 1 landed 2 June 1966
  7. Surveyor 2 crashed 23 September 1966
  8. Surveyor 3 landed 20 April 1967
  9. Surveyor 4 crashed (or possibly exploded just above surface) 17 July 1967
  10. Surveyor 5 landed 11 September 1967
  11. Surveyor 6 landed 10 November 1967
  12. Surveyor 7 landed 10 January 1968
  13. Lunar Orbiter 1 crashed 29 October 1966
  14. Lunar Orbiter 2 crashed 11 October 1967
  15. Lunar Orbiter 3 crashed 9 October 1967
  16. Lunar Orbiter 4 crashed 31 October 1967
  17. Lunar Orbiter 5 crashed 31 January 1968
  18. Lunar Prospector crashed 31 July 1999
  19. LCROSS crashed 9 October 2009

Other Space Agency Probes

  1. Hiten (Japan) crashed 10 April 1993
  2. SMART 1 (ESA) crashed 3 September 2006
  3. MIP (India) crashed 14 November 2008
  4. Okina (Japan) crashed 12 February 2009
  5. Chang'e 1 (China) crashed 1 March 2009
  6. Kaguya (Japan) crashed 10 June 2009
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