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Mission
Kind: Lunar orbiterTechnology demonstration
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: GSMZ Lavochkin
Date
Start:
Duration: 75 days
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 24 June 1968 (1968-06-25)
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya-M 8K78M
Kind: GSMZ Lavochkin
Manufacturer: GSMZ Lavochkin
Mass: 1,700 kilograms (3,700 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 1/5
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Selenocentric
1º Orbit: Lunar
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Luna 14 (E-6LS series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program run by the Soviet Union. It was also called Lunik 14.
