Luna 5
Luna 5 was an
unmanned space mission of the
Luna program, also called Lunik 5.
It was designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing. The retrorocket system failed, and the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface at the
Sea of Clouds.
- Launch Date/Time: 1965-05-09 at 07:55:00 UTC
- On-orbit dry mass: 1474 kg