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- A total of 135 missions have been launched at the moon, from USSR, USA, China, Japan, India, EU, and Israel
- 76 were successful, 59 failed their objectives (56.3%)
- 46 missions have reached the moon's surface (hard or soft landings); 40 unmanned, 6 manned
- 21 soft landings (15 unmanned, 6 manned (see Apollo below)), the first was the USSR (3 February 1966) (a Chinese mission not listed below landed on the far side, Chang'e 4, January 2019)
- 16 intentional crash landings - the first was the USSR (13 Sept 1959) (9 USA, 1 USSR, 3 Japan, 1 ea EU, India & China) includes orbiters intentionally deorbited
- 9 unintentional crash landings (meant to be soft): 6 Soviet, two American and one Israeli
- 27 astronauts (24 unique individuals*) have flown to the moon, all Americans
- 12 astronauts actually landed on the moon on six different missions. All did EVAs. Armstrong & Aldrin did one together on Apollo 11, Conrad/Bean did 2 each on 12, Shepard/Mitchell 2 ea on 14, and three times each were Scott/Irwin (15), Young/Duke (16) and Cernan/Schmidt (17). Nobody has walked on the moon on two different missions
- Total time on the moon for the 28 EVAs: 80:28
- * - "Jim Lovell, John Young, and Eugene Cernan are the only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. Young and Cernan each set foot on it during their respective second lunar missions, while Lovell is the only person to have flown to the Moon twice without landing" - Wikipedia
- The first mission to return lunar soil was Apollo 11 (16 July 1969). To date the USA has collected and returned 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar samples. The USSR has returned 11.5 grams. Japan has returned trace amounts.
- The USSR made the first unmanned soil return (24 Sept 1970)
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