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Luna 6

Luna 6 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 6. Luna 6 was intended to travel to the Moon, but, because a midcourse correction failed, it missed the Moon by 159,612.8 Km.

Launch Date/Time: 1965-06-08 at 07:41:00 UTC
On-orbit dry mass: 1440 kg

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