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. I
A copy of the Soviet pennant sent on the Luna 2 probe to the Moon, at the Kansas Cosmosphere. This one has the date “January 1959” in Cyrillic.
Luna E-1A No.1
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Luna E-1A No.1 or E-1 No.5, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1959A, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1959. It was a 387-kilogram Luna E-1A spacecraft, the first of two
Luna 2
…on 2 January 1959 and missed the Moon by 5,965 kilometres (3,706 mi). One mission separated Luna 1 and Luna 2, a launch failure that occurred with an unnamed probe on 18 June 1959. Luna 2 would be the Soviet Union's sixth attempt to impact the Moon. It was the second of the Ye-1a series, modified to carry a heavier…
A replica of an E-1 spacecraft