<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luna programme">Luna programme</a>: The Soviet Union lands <i id="mwAQ8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lunokhod 1">Lunokhod 1</a></i> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Imbrium" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mare Imbrium">Mare Imbrium</a> (Sea of Rains) on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moon">Moon</a>. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting <i id="mwARM"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_17" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luna 17">Luna 17</a></i> spacecraft.