DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: Soviet Union
Date
Start:
Duration: 12 days (launch to last contact)
Mission Ending
Last Contact: April 14, 1963
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya-L 8K78/E6
Kind: Soviet Union
Manufacturer: OKB-1
Mass: 1,422 kilograms (3,135 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 1/5
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Barycentric(Earth-Moon system)
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Luna 4, or E-6 No.4, sometimes known in the West as Sputnik 26, was a Soviet spacecraft launched as part of the Luna program to attempt the first soft landing on the Moon. Following a successful launch, the spacecraft failed to perform a course correction and as a result it missed the Moon, remaining instead in Earth orbit.
