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Luna 7

Luna 7 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. However, due to premature retrofire and cutoff of the retrorockets, the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface in the Sea of Storms.

Launch Date/Time: 1965-10-04 at 07:55:00 UTC
On-orbit dry mass: 1504 kg

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