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Luna-3
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 4 Oct 1959, 12:43 am UTC
Rocket: Vostok-L 8K72 (Vostok)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar flyby
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
Luna 3 was a Soviet spacecraft and was the first ever mission to photograph the far side of the moon.