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Luna 5

Luna 5 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 5. It was designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing. The retrorocket system failed, and the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface at the Sea of Clouds[?].

  • Launch Date/Time: 1965-05-09 at 07:55:00 UTC
  • On-orbit dry mass: 1474 kg



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