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LUNA 9
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Luna 9 (Луна-9), internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and return imagery from its surface.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 31, 1966 at 11:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-9
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,583 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1954
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 3, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 3, 1966
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed