Luna program — USSR Lunar exploration (1959–1976) Ranger program — US Lunar hard-landing probes (1961–1965) Zond program — USSR Lunar exploration (1964–1970) Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973) MUSES-A (Hiten and Hagoromo) — Japanese Lunar orbital and hard-landing probes (1990–1993) Clementine — US Lunar orbital (1998) Lunar Prospector — US Lunar orbital (1998–1999) Smart 1 — European Lunar orbital (2003) SELENE — Japanese lunar orbiter (2007) Chang'e 1 — Chinese lunar orbiter (2007) Chandrayaan 1 — Indian lunar orbiter (2008) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — US Lunar orbiter (2009) LCROSS — US Lunar hard-landing probe (2009) Chang'e 2 — Chinese Lunar orbiter (2010) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — US Lunar orbiters (2011)