45th of anniversary of the landing of the moon

A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecrafton the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2mission, on 13 September 1959.^[3]

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.^[4] There have been six manned U.S. landings (between 1969 and 1972) and numerous unmanned landings, with no soft landings happening from 1976 until 14 December 2013. To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon.