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Luna-1a
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 23 Sept 1958, 07:40 am UTC
Rocket: Vostok-L 8K72 (Vostok)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar Impactor
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
Luna E-1 number 1 was a Soviet spacecraft intended to impact the moon, however, was lost in a launch failure.