Luna 9
LanderCruise stage that delivered a 99 kg landing capsule, cushioned by airbags, to Oceanus Procellarum.
- Launch mass
- 1,583 kg
- Size
- 2.7 m × 0.6 m, span 2.7 m
- Built by
- Lavochkin
- Last contact
- 6 Feb 1966
- Designator
- 1966-006A
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- Launched
- 31 Jan 196611:41:37 UTC
- Last contact
- 6 Feb 1966
- Duration
- 6 days
- Destinations
- Moon
The first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon and the first to send back pictures from its surface.
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Spacecraft
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Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.