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LUNA 2
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Luna 2, originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon, E-1 No.7. It was the first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 12, 1959 at 06:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Vostok-L 8K72 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 114
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 13, 1959
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 13, 1959
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed