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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.

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