[so-and-so]

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]

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]

Oops. But too late to delete the comment now...

By the way, it got 7 upvotes despite being factually incorrect.

[Aachen]

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]

The Apollo 11 crew was ready to immediately take off again if the lander's legs began sinking deeply into dust.