Luna 6

Luna 6 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 6. Luna 6 was intended to travel to the Moon, but, because a midcourse correction failed, it missed the Moon by 159,612.8 km.

• Launch Date/Time: 1965-06-08 at 07:41:00 UTC
• On-orbit dry mass: 1440 kg

Preceded by : Luna 5

Luna program

Followed by : Luna 7