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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Partial failure
Place: Moon
Operator: Soviet Union
Date
Start:
Duration: 3 days (launch to impact)
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya-M 8K78M
Kind: Soviet Union
Manufacturer: OKB-1
Mass: 1,474 kilograms (3,250 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 1/5
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Luna 5, or E-6 No.10, was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft intended to land on the Moon as part of the Luna programme. It was intended to become the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, however its retrorockets failed, and the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface.
