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Thought it was the soviets to first "land" a ship on the moon. Remember they had a lot of internal dicussions on if the Moon had a solid surface.

• jwilk 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9 > On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body.
  • cubefox 3y ago
    Oops. But too late to delete the comment now... By the way, it got 7 upvotes despite being factually incorrect.
    • Aachen 3y ago
      You said land, and afaik it was land and not crash, even if it was too hard for test dummies. Dunno that people were upvoting something incorrect.
• euroderf 3y ago
  The Apollo 11 crew was ready to immediately take off again if the lander's legs began sinking deeply into dust.