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

Preceded by : Luna 4

Luna program

Followed by : Luna 6