Chronology of the moon missions

This list shows, in chronological order, all space probes and manned missions that were launched with the aim of reaching the moon . The missions that did not reach their destination due to malfunctions or other reasons ( false starts , failed path maneuvers , fly-bys) are also named. Pure false starts are in brackets.

Some lunar missions started and failed by the Soviet Union were designated as satellites (in the event of reaching Earth orbit) and given aliases from the Sputnik or Kosmos series. The probes that did not even reach Earth orbit received no official designation from the USSR. They therefore have names that are assigned by international experts after the start sequence , such as: B. Luna 1964A.

The names of manned missions are shown in bold . The degree of success is marked in the following colors:

failure

Partial success

Successfully

constantly

Contents: 1950 · 1960 · 1970 · 1990 · 2000 · 2010s · planned
#	Mission (including false starts)	image	Start date (UTC)	Organization (country)	Stages
1950s : 58 - 59
1.	( Pioneer 0 )		17 August 1958, 12:18	USAF ( USA )	The plan was to fly by the moon. The Thor Able launcher exploded 77 seconds after launch.
2.	(Lunik 1958A) (E-1 No. 1)		September 23, 1958, 7:03:23 am	Soviet Union	A hard serve on the moon was planned. Luna launcher exploded 93 seconds after launch.
3.	( Pioneer 1 )		October 11, 1958, 8:42 am	NASA (USA)	The plan was to fly by the moon. Due to the premature shutdown of the second stage of the Thor-Able, it only reached a distance of 113,854 km (30% of the distance from Earth to Moon) and burned up after 43 hours of flight in the Earth's atmosphere.
4th	(Lunik 1958B) (E-1 No. 2)		October 11, 1958, 9:41:58 PM	Soviet Union	A hard serve on the moon was planned. Luna launcher exploded 104 seconds after takeoff.
5.	( Pioneer 2 )		November 8, 1958, 7:31 am	NASA (USA)	The plan was to fly by the moon. Due to the failure of the third stage of the Thor Able launcher, it only reached an altitude of 1500 km and burned up on re-entry in the earth's atmosphere.
6th	(Lunik 1958C) (E-1 No. 3)		December 4, 1958, 6:18 pm	Soviet Union	A hard serve on the moon was planned. Failure of the engines of the central stage of the Luna launcher 245 seconds after launch.
7th	( Pioneer 3 )		December 6, 1958, 5:45 am	NASA (USA)	The plan was to fly by the moon. Due to the premature shutdown of the first stage of the Juno II launcher, it only reached a summit height of 102,230 km (27% of the distance from Earth to Moon) and burned up in the earth's atmosphere after 38 hours of flight.
8th.	Lunik 1 (E-1 No. 4)		January 2, 1959, 4:41:21 PM	Soviet Union	First partial success of a space probe . A hard serve on the moon was planned. Due to small control errors, the lunar probe flew about 6000 km past the earth's satellite on January 4, 1959 and then swung into a solar orbit. Provided useful radiation readings for analyzing Earth's radiation belts ( discovered by Explorer 1 a year earlier ) and confirmed the existence of the solar wind .
9.	Pioneer 4		March 4, 1959, 5:11 am	NASA (USA)	Planned flyby of the moon, which took place about 60,000 km away. The probe then left the sphere of action of the earth's gravity and was the first US spacecraft to penetrate interplanetary space .
10.	Lunik 1959A (E-1A No. 1)		June 18, 1959, 8:08 am	Soviet Union	A hard serve on the moon was planned. Luna launcher control system failure 153 seconds after launch.
11.	Lunik 2 (E-1A No. 2)		September 12, 1959, 6:39:42 AM	Soviet Union	Hard landing on the moon on September 13, 1959. First artificial missile that hit the surface of the moon in a targeted manner.
12.	Pioneer P-1 (Pioneer A)		September 24, 1959	NASA (USA)	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Exploded with an Atlas Able missile during pre-launch static engine tests. This probe is often not listed under lunar missions because there was no actual launch.
13.	Lunik 3 (E-2A No. 1)		October 4, 1959, 12:43:40 AM	Soviet Union	The planned flyby of the moon took place on October 6, 1959 at a distance of 6200 km. Delivered a total of 29 images, including the first images from the back of the moon. Burned up in the earth's atmosphere in April 1960.
14th	Pioneer P-3 (Pioneer B)		November 26, 1959, 7:26 am	NASA (USA)	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Destroyed by failure of the Atlas Able missile's payload fairing 45 seconds after launch.
1960s : 60 - 61 - 62 - 63 - 64 - 65 - 66 - 67 - 68 - 69
15th	Lunik 1960A (E-3 No. 1)		April 15, 1960, 3:06:44 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to fly by the moon. Due to the premature shutdown of the third stage of the Luna launcher, it only reached a distance of approx. 200,000 km and then burned up in the earth's atmosphere.
16.	Lunik 1960B (E-3 No. 2)		April 16, 1960, 4:07:43 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to fly by the moon. The Luna launcher broke apart shortly after launch due to a malfunction in one of the boosters.
17th	Pioneer P-30 (Pioneer C)		25 September 1960, 3:13 pm	NASA (USA)	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Did not reach Earth orbit due to failure of the Atlas Able launcher second stage.
18th	Pioneer P-31 (Pioneer D)		December 15, 1960, 8:40 am	NASA (USA)	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Atlas Able launcher explodes shortly after takeoff.
19th	Ranger 1		23rd August 1961	NASA (USA)	Was planned for engineering tests and intrusion into space near the moon; not a pure moon mission. Could not leave low earth orbit due to a malfunction in the upper stage of the Atlas Agena B launcher and burned up a few days later in the earth's atmosphere.
20th	Ranger 2		November 18, 1961	NASA (USA)	Was planned for engineering tests and intrusion into space near the moon; not a pure moon mission. Could not leave low Earth orbit due to a malfunction in the upper stage of the Atlas Agena B launcher and burned up a few days later in the Earth's atmosphere (similar to Ranger 1).
21st	Ranger 3		January 26, 1962	NASA (USA)	A hard impact and landing of a capsule on the moon was planned. Due to excessive speed, the probe flew 36,000 km past the moon into a solar orbit. The probe did not send any images.
22nd	Ranger 4		April 23, 1962	NASA (USA)	Planned hard impact and landing of a capsule on the moon. Contact with the probe broke off on the day it was launched. The probe hit the moon on April 26, 1962. Despite the failure, Ranger 4 was the first US spacecraft to reach the surface of the moon.
23.	Ranger 5		October 18, 1962	NASA (USA)	A hard impact and landing of a capsule on the moon was planned. Here, too, there was a communication breakdown on the start day. The probe flew past the moon around 700 km away and then entered a solar orbit.
24.	Sputnik 25 (E-6 No. 1)		4th January 1963	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Only reached orbit due to the failure of the fourth stage of the Molnija launcher.
25th	Luna 1963A (E-6 No. 2)		3rd February 1963	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Molnija launcher.
26th	Luna 4 (E-6 No. 3)		April 2, 1963, 8:04 am	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Due to an error in the navigation, flyby of the moon at a distance of 8336.2 km.
27.	Ranger 6		January 30, 1964	NASA (USA)	Planned hard impact on the moon on February 2, 1964. Close-ups of the moon's surface were also planned, but the cameras could not be activated immediately before the impact.
28.	Luna 1964A (E-6 No. 4)		March 21, 1964	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Molnija launcher.
29	Luna 1964B (E-6 No. 5)		April 20, 1964	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Molnija launcher.
30th	Ranger 7		July 28, 1964	NASA (USA)	Planned hard impact on the moon on July 31, 1964 and transmitted 4,300 close-ups of the lunar surface immediately before that.
31.	Ranger 8		February 17, 1965	NASA (USA)	Planned hard impact on the moon on February 20, 1965 and close-ups of the lunar surface beforehand. Submitted 7,300 images.
32.	Kosmos 60 (E-6 No. 6)		March 12, 1965	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Only reached orbit due to the failure of the fourth stage of the Molnya launcher.
33.	Ranger 9		March 21, 1965	NASA (USA)	Planned hard impact on the moon on March 24, 1965 and close-ups of the lunar surface. Submitted 5800 images that were also shown live on US television.
34.	Luna 1965A (E-6 No. 7)		April 10, 1965	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Failed to reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Molniya's third stage launcher.
35.	(Luna 5) (E-6 No. 8)		May 9, 1965, 7:55 am	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Crashed on the moon on May 12 after the ground station lost control of the main engine. The cause was uncontrollable rotation of the probe.
36.	Luna 6 (E-6 No. 9)		June 6, 1965, 7:41 am	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Missed the moon when corrected in the wrong direction, 159,218 km away.
37.	Zone 3		July 18, 1965	Soviet Union	Originally planned for Mars , but sent to the moon due to launch delays and the closing of the Mars launch window . Tried a camera system and other experiments while flying past the moon (9200 km away) and delivered data up to a distance of 30 million km.
38.	Luna 7 (E-6 No. 10)		4th October 1965	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. The attitude control system failed before landing, so that the ignition of the brake engine failed; then the probe crashed on the moon.
39.	Luna 8 (E-6 No. 11)		December 3, 1965	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon was planned. Started rotating nine seconds after the brake engine fired and hit the moon hard.
40.	Luna 9 (E-6 No. 12)		January 31, 1966	Soviet Union	First soft landing on the moon in the history of space travel . The probe measured the radiation on the lunar surface and sent panoramas of the lunar surface to earth. The lander worked until the batteries ran out on February 6, 1966.
41.	(Kosmos 111) (E-6S No. 1)		March 1, 1966	Soviet Union	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Only reached orbit due to the failure of the fourth stage of the Molnya launcher.
42.	Luna 10 (E-6S No. 2)		March 31, 1966	Soviet Union	On April 3, 1966, it was the first space probe to enter lunar orbit. The camera system on board the probe could not be put into operation, but other experiments could be carried out successfully.
43.	Surveyor 1		May 30, 1966	NASA (USA)	Soft landing on the moon on June 2, 1966. Until July 14, 1966, worked a total of around six weeks on the lunar surface and transmitted 11,200 images. First soft moon landing by a US probe.
44.	Explorer 33 (IMP-D)		July 1, 1966	NASA (USA)	Planned as an orbiter for exploring the magnetic field in the lunar orbit . Only reached one Earth orbit due to a missile failure.
45.	Lunar Orbiter 1		August 10, 1966	NASA (USA)	Swiveled into lunar orbit four days after takeoff, making it the first orbiter in the United States. From the 26th orbit of the moon on August 18, he began recording and transmitted a total of 229 images until the crash on October 29, 1966.
46.	Luna 11 (E-6LF No. 1)		August 24, 1966	Soviet Union	Entered a lunar orbit on August 27, 1966. Conducted experiments but did not provide images of the moon due to camera alignment issues .
47.	Surveyor 2		20th September 1966	NASA (USA)	A soft moon landing was planned, but hit hard two days after takeoff and was destroyed in the process.
48.	Luna 12 (E-6LF No. 2)		October 22, 1966	Soviet Union	Entered a lunar orbit on October 25, 1966. Conducted experiments and provided recordings.
49.	Lunar Orbiter 2		November 6, 1966	NASA (USA)	Swiveled into a lunar orbit four days after the start and transmitted 817 images by the (planned?) Impact on October 11, 1967.
50.	Luna 13 (E-6M No. 1)		December 21, 1966	Soviet Union	Soft landing on the moon on December 24th, 1966. The lander worked until the batteries were exhausted on December 30th, 1966 and sent numerous panoramic images to Earth.
51.	Lunar Orbiter 3		5th February 1967	NASA (USA)	Swung into lunar orbit three days after takeoff and transmitted 626 images until the crash on October 10, 1967. Because of some malfunctions, Lunar Orbiter 3 is not considered to be quite as successful.
52.	Surveyor 3		April 17, 1967	NASA (USA)	Soft landing on the moon on April 20, 1967. Remained active until May 4, 1967, transmitted 6300 images and carried out a drilling experiment.
53.	Lunar Orbiter 4		May 4th 1967	NASA (USA)	Swung into lunar orbit four days after takeoff. In contrast to the previous missions, the orbit was much higher and almost polar. The probe took 546 pictures up to the crash on October 31, 1967. As a result, the front of the moon was almost completely covered and about 3/4 of the back was covered.
54.	Surveyor 4		July 14, 1967	NASA (USA)	The plan was to make a soft landing on the moon, but hit hard on July 17, 1967 and was destroyed in the process.
55.	Explorer 35 (IMP-E)		July 19, 1967	NASA (USA)	Lunar satellite for researching the magnetic field in the lunar orbit. Reached lunar orbit on July 21, 1967 and was not shut down until June 24, 1973 after six years of successful operation.
56.	Lunar Orbiter 5		August 1, 1967	NASA (USA)	Swiveled into a polar, highly elliptical lunar orbit close to the surface on August 4th. As of August 6, 1967, 844 images were transmitted, including a. from the back of the moon not yet fully captured. Crashed on the moon on January 31, 1968.
57.	Surveyor 5		September 8, 1967	NASA (USA)	Soft landing on the moon three days after takeoff. By December 17, 1967, sent 19,000 images and data and analyzed a soil sample.
58.	(Zond 1967A) (7K-L1 No. 4L)		September 27, 1967, 10:11:54 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). Explosion of the Proton launcher at an altitude of 65 km.
59.	Surveyor 6		November 7, 1967	NASA (USA)	Soft landing on the moon three days after takeoff; worked until December 14, 1967. Submitted 15,000 images and numerous dates. On November 17, 1967, the engine was re-ignited and the probe touched down again 2.5 m away.
60.	(Zond 1967B) (7K-L1 No. 5L)		November 22, 1967, 7:07:59 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Proton launcher.
61.	Surveyor 7		7th January 1968	NASA (USA)	Soft landing on the moon three days after takeoff near Tycho crater . Submitted 21,000 images by February 21, 1968.
62.	(Luna 1968A) (E-6LS No. 1)		7th February 1968	Soviet Union	Was planned as a lunar orbiter. Failed to reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Molniya's third stage launcher.
63.	(Zond 4) (7K-L1 No. 6L)		March 2, 1968, 18:29:23	Soviet Union	Test for a manned orbit around the moon. Orbit offset by 180 ° from the moon. Partial success: came off course on re-entry and was blown up at a height of 10–15 km over the Gulf of Guinea.
64.	Luna 14 (E-6LS No. 2)		April 7, 1968	Soviet Union	Swung into lunar orbit on April 10, 1968. Test of the communication system for the manned Soviet lunar program.
65.	(Zond 1968A) (7K-L1 No. 7L)		April 22, 1968, 11:01:27 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon (test for a manned orbit around the moon). The capsule's interference signal switched off the 2nd stage prematurely. Blasted off capsule, fell softly about 520 km from the Baikonur space center.
66.	Zond 1968B (7K-L1 No. 8L)		July 14, 1968	Soviet Union	Explosion of the Proton launcher along with the Zond spacecraft on the launch pad. Often not listed under moon missions because there was no actual launch.
67.	Zond 5 (7K-L1 No. 9L)		September 14, 1968, 9:42:11 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). Got off course on reentry and splashed down in the Indian Ocean.
68.	Zone 6 (7K-L1 No. 12L)		November 10, 1968, 7:11:31 pm	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). Crashed during a hard landing in Kazakhstan due to early release of the main parachute.
69.	Apollo 8		December 21, 1968, 12:51 p.m.	NASA (USA)	First manned orbit and return to Earth in the history of space travel. Crew: Frank Borman , James A. Lovell and William Anders .
70.	Zond 1969A (7K-L1 No. 13L)		January 20, 1969, 4:14:36	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the second stage of the Proton rocket.
71.	Luna 1969A (E-8 No. 201)		19th February 1969	Soviet Union	First Lunochod start attempt ( moon rover ). The payload fairing of the Proton launcher collapsed after about a minute of flight time, which led to the destruction of the rocket.
72.	7K-L1S No. 1		February 21, 1969	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth. Failure of the first N1 launcher 68.7 seconds after launch.
73.	Apollo 10		May 18, 1969, 4:49 p.m.	NASA (USA)	Test of the landing module in lunar orbit; approached the lunar surface to within 14 km. Crew: Tom Stafford , John Young and Eugene Cernan .
74.	Luna 1969B (E-8-5 No. 402)		June 14, 1969	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Proton missile.
75.	7K-L1S No. 2		3rd July 1969	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth. Failure of the N1 launcher approximately 10 seconds after launch.
76.	Luna 15 (E-8-5 No. 401)		July 13, 1969	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Reached lunar orbit on July 17, 1969, but hit hard while attempting to land on July 21, 1969.
77.	Apollo 11		July 16, 1969, 1:32 p.m.	NASA (USA)	First manned moon landing in the history of space travel on July 20, 1969 at Mare Tranquillitatis . Crew: Neil Armstrong , Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins .
78.	Zond 7 (7K-L1 No. 11L)		7 August 1969, 11:48:06	Soviet Union	Orbit the moon and return to earth (test for a manned orbit around the moon). One of two completely successful missions within the Zond 4-8 program.
79.	Kosmos 300 (E-8-5 No. 403)		23rd September 1969	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Only reached orbit due to the failure of the fourth stage of the Proton rocket.
80.	Kosmos 305 (E-8-5 No. 404)		October 22, 1969	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Only reached orbit due to the failure of the fourth stage of the Proton rocket.
81.	Apollo 12		November 14, 1969, 4:22 p.m.	NASA (USA)	Manned moon landing on November 19, 1969 in Oceanus Procellarum near the Surveyor 3 probe, which landed in 1967 . Crew: Charles Conrad , Richard Gordon and Alan Bean .
1970 : 70 - 71 - 72 - 73 - 74 - 75 - 76
82.	Luna 1970A (E-8-5 No. 405)		February 6, 1970	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Proton missile.
83.	Apollo 13		April 11, 1970, 7:13:00 p.m.	NASA (USA)	A manned moon landing was planned. Due to an explosion on board the Apollo spaceship on the way to the moon, the landing was canceled and half a moon orbit followed by a return to earth. Crew: James Lovell , John Swigert and Fred Haise .
84.	Luna 16 (E-8-5 No. 406)		September 12, 1970	Soviet Union	First successful return of an unmanned space probe with lunar samples. Landing of the return capsule on September 24, 1970 in Kazakhstan .
85.	Zond 8 (7K-L1 No. 14L)		October 20, 1970, 19:55:39	Soviet Union	Successful orbit around the moon and return to earth. Test of an alternative return path for the manned N1-L3 lunar landing program. Scheduled reentry over the Arctic with subsequent point ditching in the Indian Ocean. Capsule was recovered 15 minutes later.
86.	Luna 17 - Lunochod 1 (E-8 No. 203)		November 10, 1970	Soviet Union	Successful moon rover . Worked for eleven months (three were planned) until the official end of the mission on October 4, 1971. During this time, the rover covered 10,540 m, transmitted more than 20,000 images, over 200 panoramas and examined over 500 soil samples.
87.	Apollo 14		January 31, 1971, 9:03:02 pm	NASA (USA)	Manned moon landing on February 5, 1971 in the Fra Mauro region. Crew: Alan Shepard , Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell .
88	7K-LOK (dummy)		June 27, 1971	Soviet Union	The plan was possibly to orbit the moon and return to earth. Failure of the N1 launcher shortly after launch.
89.	Apollo 15		July 26, 1971, 1:34:00 p.m.	NASA (USA)	Manned moon landing on July 31, 1971 near Hadley Rille . First use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (moon car). Crew: David Scott , James Irwin and Alfred Worden .
90.	Luna 18 (E-8-5 No. 407)		2nd September 1971	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. The probe fell silent on landing and has probably been damaged.
91.	Luna 19 (E-8LS No. 202)		September 28, 1971	Soviet Union	Successful orbiter. Swed into lunar orbit on October 2, 1971 and remained in operation for about a year.
92.	Luna 20 (E-8-5 No. 408)		February 14, 1972	Soviet Union	Successful return with moon samples. Landing of the return capsule on February 25, 1972 with 150 g of lunar rock.
93.	Apollo 16		April 16, 1972, 5:54 p.m.	NASA (USA)	Manned moon landing on April 21, 1972 in the Descartes highlands. Use of the moon car. Crew: John Young , Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke .
94.	7K LOCO		November 23, 1972	Soviet Union	The plan was to orbit the moon and return to earth. Failure of the N1 launcher shortly after launch. Last start in the Soviet manned lunar program.
95.	Apollo 17		December 7, 1972, 05:33:00	NASA (USA)	Manned moon landing on December 11, 1972 in the Taurus - Littrow region. Use of the moon car, last manned moon landing to date. Crew: Eugene Cernan , Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt .
96.	Luna 21 - Lunochod 2 (E-8 No. 204)		January 8, 1973	Soviet Union	Successful moon rover . Was in use for around five months, covered around 37 km during this time, transmitted around 80,000 TV images and 86 panoramas.
97.	Explorer 49 (RAE-B)		June 10, 1973	NASA (USA)	Lunar orbiter for exploring radio sources in space (no exploration of the moon).
98	Luna 22 (E-8LS No. 206)		May 29, 1974	Soviet Union	Successful orbiter. Entered lunar orbit on June 2, 1974, transmitting data from lunar orbit for 15 months.
99	Luna 23 (E-8-5M No. 410)		October 28, 1974	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. The moon landing was successful, but the drill was damaged so that no soil samples could be obtained. The return start to earth was therefore omitted.
100.	Luna 1975A (E-8-5M No. 412)		October 16, 1975	Soviet Union	A return with lunar samples was planned. Did not reach Earth orbit due to the failure of the Proton missile.
101.	Luna 24 (E-8-5M No. 413)		August 9, 1976	Soviet Union	Successful return with moon samples. Landing of the return capsule on August 22, 1976 with 170 g of lunar rock.
1990s : 90 - 94 - 97 - 98
102.	Hit		January 24, 1990	ISAS ( Japan )	Orbiter with daughter orbiter Hagoromo. First Japanese moon mission. Technology experiment, not a scientific payload. First flyby on March 19, 1990 with Hagoromo being placed in lunar orbit. Contact with the daughter probe was lost on the same day. Hiten entered a lunar orbit on February 15, 1992 and hit the moon on April 10, 1993.
103.	Clementine		January 25, 1994	DoD / NASA (USA)	Orbiter, lunar and asteroid probe. Reached a polar orbit around the moon on February 19, 1994. Left lunar orbit on May 7, 1994 for a planned flyby of the asteroid (1620) Geographos. However, this resulted in a malfunction, as a result of which the probe stranded in an earth orbit. Loss of contact on May 14, 1994. a. Evidence of water ice at the lunar South Pole.
104.	Lunar Prospector		January 6, 1998	NASA (USA)	Orbiter. Reached a polar orbit around the moon on January 11, 1998. Hitting the moon on July 31, 1999, planned.
2000 : 03 - 07 - 08 - 09
105.	SMART-1		September 28, 2003	ESA ( Europe )	Orbiter. Reached orbit around the moon on November 15, 2004 using an ion drive . Crashed on September 3, 2006 as planned.
106.	ARTEMIS P1 and P2		February 17, 2007	NASA	Two small orbiters, which were initially launched into an eccentric earth orbit with three sister satellites under the name THEMIS (A to E), were used to research partial storms in the earth's magnetosphere . As part of an expansion of the mission, THEMIS B and THEMIS C were converted to earth-moon libration points L1 and L2 in May 2008 under the names ARTEMIS P1 and P2 and later to an eccentric lunar orbit (ARTEMIS P1 on June 27, 2011 and ARTEMIS P2 on June 17, 2011). July 2011) maneuvered.
107.	Kaguya		September 14, 2007	JAXA (Japan)	Orbiter with two small subsatellites. Planned mission duration at least one year. The orbiter entered lunar orbit on October 3, 2007. Kaguya hit the moon on June 10, 2009 as planned.
108.	Chang'e-1		October 24, 2007	CNSA ( China )	Orbiter. First moon mission of the People's Republic of China. Entered a lunar orbit on November 5, 2007. On March 1, 2009, Chang'e-1 hit the moon at 09:13 a.m. CET.
109.	Chandrayaan-1		October 22, 2008	ISRO ( India )	Orbiter with small impact probe MIP. First Indian mission to the moon. Entered a lunar orbit on October 27, 2008. Hard surcharge from MIP on November 14, 2008. Scheduled mission period at least two years. The contact broke off unexpectedly on August 28, 2009.
110.	Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter		June 18, 2009	NASA (USA)	Orbiter. Mission duration at least one year. Start and flight together with LCROSS.
111.	LCROSS		June 18, 2009	NASA (USA)	Impact probe for the detection of water ice at the south pole of the moon. Takeoff and flight together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Impact on October 9, 2009 in the western part of the 95 km crater Cabeus . The evaluation of the data in 2010 confirmed the existence of water in very small quantities.
2010s : 10 - 13 - 14 - 18 - 19
112.	Chang'e-2		October 1, 2010	CNSA ( China )	Second lunar mission of the People's Republic of China. Lunar orbit from October 6, 2010 to June 9, 2011. Then flight to Lagrangian point L2 of the sun-earth system and to the near-earth asteroid (4179) Toutatis .
113.	GRAIL		September 8, 2011	NASA (USA)	Two orbiters for the precise measurement of the lunar gravity field. Controlled crash in the North Pole region of the Moon on December 17, 2012.
114.	LADEE		September 6, 2013	NASA (USA)	Orbiter that examined the atmosphere and the dust of the moon. Crash on the back of the moon on April 18, 2014.
115.	Chang'e-3		December 1st, 2013	CNSA ( China )	Lander with Rover Yutu touching down on the moon on December 14, 2013 at 1:11 p.m. UTC. The rover drove a distance of 114 meters. Since January 2014 it has been idle due to a malfunction, in August 2016 it completely failed.
116.	Chang'e 5-T1		23 October 2014, 6:00 p.m.	CNSA (China)	Orbit the moon and return to earth (test mission for Chang'e 5 , which is to bring soil samples from the moon to earth).
117.	4M		23 October 2014, 6:00 p.m.	OHB	Flyby, piggyback payload of the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 5-T1.
118.	Longjiang-1 Longjiang-2		May 20, 2018, 9:25 pm	CNSA (China)	Piggyback payloads from Queqiao (communications satellite for Chang'e-4). Longjiang 1 was lost; Longjiang 2 reached an elliptical lunar orbit (350 × 13,700 km) and was in use for 14 months.
119.	Chang'e 4		7 December 2018, 6:24 pm	CNSA (China)	Lander with Rover Yutu 2 ; Landing site on the back of the moon; Landing took place on January 3, 2019. Since then, rover trips during the lunar days and breaks at night.
120.	Beresheet		February 22, 2019, 1:45 am	SpaceIL (Israel)	Countries; hit the lunar surface hard on April 11, 2019.
121.	Chandrayaan-2		July 22, 2019, 9:13 am	ISRO (India)	The probe - consisting of an orbiter, lander and rover - entered a lunar orbit on August 20, 2019. Lander crash on September 6, 2019; Planned orbiter operation expected until 2026 or 2027.
Planned
	Chang'e 5		4th quarter 2020	CNSA (China)	Soil samples are to be brought from the moon to earth.
	Chandrayaan-3		1st half of 2021	ISRO (India)	After the failed moon landing of Chandrayaan-2, India makes a second attempt with Chandrayaan-3. The probe consists of a lander with a rover. An orbiter is not provided as the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is working properly.
	Peregrine Mission One		July 2021	Astrobotic (USA)	Landing in Lacus Mortis with several rovers; Mission on behalf of NASA
	IM-1		October 2021	Intuitive Machines (USA)	First mission of the lunar lander Nova-C , landing in Oceanus Procellarum with NASA payloads
	Luna 25 (Luna Glob)		October 2021	Roscosmos ( Russia )	Countries
	Artemis 1		no earlier than 2021	NASA (USA)	Unmanned flight of the new US spacecraft Orion to the moon.
	ArgoMoon Cislunar Explorers CU-E3 LunaH map Lunar IceCube Lunar Flashlight LunIR Omotenashi Team Miles		no earlier than 2021	NASA (USA) JAXA (Japan)	CubeSats , which are started with Artemis 1 and are supposed to search for water ice on the moon, among other things.
	Hakuto-R 1		2021	ispace (Japan)	Countries
	genesis		End of 2021	Firefly Aerospace (USA)	Lander, Beresheet successor
	SLIM		Early 2022	JAXA (Japan)	Countries
	Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter		July 2022	KARI (South Korea)	Orbiter
	XL-1		4th quarter 2022	Masts (USA)	unmanned landing in the South Pole region with NASA payloads
	LSAS		4th quarter 2022	OHB (Germany)	Countries
	Artemis 2		2022	NASA (USA)	Manned orbit around the moon with the US spaceship Orion
	viper		2023	NASA (USA)	Unmanned landing in the South Pole region with the rover "Viper", 100-day mission a. a. for the investigation of water ice deposits.
	LOP-G		2023	NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, JAXA, CSA	Transport of the first two modules of the planned lunar space station into lunar orbit
	Dear Moon		2023	SpaceX (USA)	Manned flyby of the reusable Starship spacecraft on the moon with financier Yusaku Maezawa and a group of artists.
	Hakuto-R 2		2023	ispace (Japan)	Lander with rover
	Chang'e 6		2023-2024	CNSA (China)	Soil samples are to be brought from the moon to earth.
	Artemis 3		2024	NASA (USA)	Manned flight of the Orion spaceship and landing near the South Pole . (preliminary planning)
	Luna 26 (Luna Glob 2)		2024	Roscosmos (Russia)	Orbiter
	Luna 27 (Luna Resurs)		2025	Roscosmos / ESA	Landing in the South Pole Aitken Basin (planning status 2015)

Individual evidence

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See also

• List of man-made objects on the moon

Web links

• Unmanned missions to the moon part 1
• Unmanned missions to the moon part 2
• NASA: Lunar Exploration Timeline (English)
• Overview of the Russian launches toward the Moon (English)

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