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Detailed explanation-1: -“If this mission succeeds, South Korea will become the seventh country in the world to have launched an unmanned probe to the Moon,” an official at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute told AFP.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a result, Korea became the seventh country in the world to explore the moon, following Russia, the U.S., Japan, the European Union, China and India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Of the Moon landings, Luna 2 of the Soviet Union was the first spacecraft to reach its surface successfully, intentionally impacting the Moon on 13 September 1959.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States is the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.