<Table> <Tr> <Td> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Clickable map of the locations of all successful soft landings on the Moon to date (top). </Li> </Ul> <Dl> <Dd> <Table> <Tr> <Td> <P> Luna programme (USSR) Chang'e 3 (China) </P> </Td> <Td> <P> Surveyor program (USA) Apollo program (USA) </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Dd> </Dl> <Dl> <Dd> Dates are landing dates in Coordinated Universal Time . Except for the Apollo program, all soft landings were unmanned . </Dd> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> Luna 2 was the first man - made object to reach the surface of the Moon (bottom - left). </Li> <Li> Still frame from a video transmission, taken moments before Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon, at 02: 56 UTC on 21 July 1969 . An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr>

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