The Luna 8K72 vehicles were carrier rockets used by the Soviet Union for nine space probe launch attempts in the Luna programme between 23 September 1958...

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Luna 2 (Russian: Луна 2), originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet...

The 2K6 Luna (‹See Tfd›Russian: Луна, lit. 'Moon') is a Soviet short-range artillery rocket complex. Luna rockets are solid-fuel, unguided and spin-stabilized...

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The 9K52 Luna-M (‹See Tfd›Russian: Луна, English: Moon; NATO reporting name: Frog-7) is a Soviet short-range artillery rocket system which fires unguided...

(Dream). Luna 1 was also referred to as the "First Cosmic Ship", in reference to its achievement of Earth escape velocity. The satellite and rocket carrying...

Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology, Museum of Air and Space Paris and other locations. Luna 9 mockup (1:1) at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. Luna-9 descent...

was known as Luna 1958A. Solar System portal Spaceflight portal Luna (rocket) Luna-Glob List of missions to the Moon Soviet crewed lunar programs Soviet...

Rocket to Luna is a juvenile science fiction novel by prolific author and screenwriter Evan Hunter (as Richard Marsten) published in 1953 by The John C...

land on the lunar south pole. The Luna 25 mission lifted off on 10 August 2023, 23:10 UTC, atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's...

spacecraft, its mass was too great for the three-stage Luna (rocket) that had launched the previous Luna probes. The Ye-6 instead would be launched on the...

index 8K72 was a rocket used by the Soviet Union to conduct several early tests of the Vostok spacecraft. It was derived from the Luna rocket, with a slightly...

Luna 6, or E-6 No.7 (Ye-6 series) was an uncrewed Soviet spacecraft which was intended to perform a landing on the Moon as part of the Luna program. Due...

Luna 24 was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. The 24th mission of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was...

and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959. In 1969 Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the...

The major versions of the rocket were: Luna 8K72 – used to launch the early Luna spacecraft Vostok-L 8K72 – Variant of the Luna, used to launch prototype...

Semyorka rocket and had four stages. The rocket was given the name Molniya due to the large number of Molniya communication satellites the rockets launched...

Interplanetary Station. The probe was renamed to Luna 3 in 1963. After launching on a Luna 8K72 (number I1-8) rocket over the North Pole, the Blok-E escape stage...

Luna 21 (Ye-8 series) was an uncrewed space mission, and its spacecraft, of the Luna program, also called Lunik 21, in 1973. The spacecraft landed on the...

Syrian Civil War and Yemeni Civil War. The rocket is thought to be based on the Soviet 9K52 Luna-M rocket. A Syrian version of the system, called Maysaloun...

1976, Luna 24 landed several hundred meters away and successfully returned samples. The asteroid-like object 2010 KQ is believed to be a rocket that parted...

stunning ... they bear the imprint of gifted artists’ hands.... The Luna rocket of Destination Moon still [has] the capacity to astonish”. —Justin Humphreys...

mission, the Luna 25 lander, was put on hold, only to be revived a few years later. Initially scheduled for launch in 2012 by a Soyuz-2 rocket, the first...

first time by Luna 3 in (7 October 1959). In 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled soft landing, while Luna 10 became the first...

landing under Moon race. Luna E-8-5 No.402 was launched at 04:00:07 UTC on 14 June 1969 atop a Proton-K 8K78K carrier rocket with a Blok D upper stage...

Laika on Sputnik 2. 1959: First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity, Luna 1. 1959: First data communications...

Luna 13 (E-6M series) was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program by Soviet Union. The Luna 13 spacecraft was launched toward the Moon onboard a...

due to a problem with the upper stage of the rocket that launched it. It was a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) Luna Ye-6 spacecraft, the first of twelve to be...

Luna 18, part of the Ye-8-5 series, was an uncrewed space mission of the Luna program. Luna 18 was placed in an Earth parking orbit after it was launched...