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Luna-1c
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 4 Dec 1958, 06:18 pm 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 3 was a Soviet spacecraft intended to impact the moon but was lost in a launch failure.