Luna spacecraft

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The Luna spacecraft were a series of Soviet robotic probes launched between the late 1950s and 1970s that achieved many lunar exploration firsts, including the first human-made object to reach the Moon and the first soft landing on its surface.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Luna spacecraft canonical 2
Luna E-1 No.3 1
Luna E-1 series 1

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf series of robotic lunar probes
spacecraft program
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
destination Moon
era Cold War
hasPart Luna 1
Luna 10
Luna 11
Luna 12
Luna 13
Luna 14
Luna 15
Luna 16
Luna 17
Luna 18
Luna 19
Luna 2
Luna 20
Luna 21
Luna 22
Luna 23
Luna 24
Luna 25
Luna 26
Luna 27
Luna 28
Luna 3
Luna 4
Luna 5
Luna 6
Luna 7
Luna 8
Luna 9
Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs
surface form: Luna E-1 series

Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs
surface form: Luna E-2 series

Luna E-3 series
Ye-6 series lunar landers
surface form: Luna E-6 series

Ye-6 series lunar landers
surface form: Luna E-6M series

Luna E-7 series
Luna Ye-8 series
Luna Ye-8 series
surface form: Luna Ye-8-5 series

Luna Ye-8 series
surface form: Luna Ye-8-5M series

Luna Ye-8 series
surface form: Luna Ye-8LS series
launchVehicleUsed Molniya-M rocket
surface form: Molniya rocket family

Proton rocket
surface form: Proton rocket family

Vostok-L rocket
surface form: Vostok rocket family
locationOfLaunch Baikonur Cosmodrome
missionType flyby
impact
lander
orbiter
rover
sample return
notableFor first human-made object to impact the Moon
first human-made object to reach the Moon
first images of the far side of the Moon
first lunar orbiter from Earth
first robotic sample return from the Moon
first soft landing on the Moon
operatedBy OKB-1
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Soviet Union
operator Soviet space program
partOf Luna programme
surface form: Soviet lunar program
primaryTarget lunar orbit
lunar surface
programEndDate 1976
programStartDate 1958
relatedProgram Apollo program
Lunokhod programme
surface form: Lunokhod program
scientificObjective return lunar soil samples to Earth
study Moon's environment
study Moon's surface
test lunar landing techniques
spaceAgency Soviet space program
surface form: Soviet space agency

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

OKB-1 developed Luna spacecraft
Mechta precededBy Luna spacecraft
this entity surface form: Luna E-1 No.3
Molniya 8K78 notablePayload Luna spacecraft
this entity surface form: Luna deep-space probes
Luna spacecraft hasPart Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Luna E-1 series
Luna spacecraft hasPart Luna spacecraft self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Luna E-2 series
Luna 24 belongsTo Luna spacecraft
this entity surface form: Luna series of spacecraft