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NSSDCA ID: 1959-014A. 1959-09-12T06:39:42Z Decay Date: Epoch stop (UTC): General information about Luna 2. Telecommunications information for Luna 2. Experiments on Luna 2. Data collections from Luna 2. Spacecraft. Experiments.
On this day in 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (Луна 2) impacted the Moon, the first
On 2 January 1959, after reaching escape velocity, Luna 1 separated from its 1472 kg third stage. The third stage, 5.2 m long and 2.4 m in diameter, travelled along with Luna 1. On 3 January, at a distance of 113,000 km from Earth, a large (1 kg) cloud of sodium gas was released by the spacecraft.
Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first manmade object
On Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union announced the launch of their first Cosmic Rocket (retroactively renamed Luna 1 in 1963), carrying a 796-pound spherical spacecraft containing six scientific experiments to monitor space radiation, magnetic fields, and micrometeorite impacts.
Luna 2, el primer dispositivo en llegar al satélite, despegó con éxito un día como hoy de 1959
This crash-slash-success happened on September 13, 1959. Beyond that science mission, Luna 2 carried a political payload. Inside the probe was a ball made up of pentagonal Soviet pennants,.
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Richard Cavendish explains how, on September 12th, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 2, the first spacecraft to successfully reach the Moon. Richard Cavendish | Published in History Today Volume 59 Issue 9 September 2009 Luna 2
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On 13 September 1959, it impacted the Moon's surface east of Mare Imbrium near the craters Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus . Prior to impact, two sphere-shaped pennants with USSR and the launch date engraved in Cyrillic were detonated, sending pentagonal shields in all directions.
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In 1959, the R-7 rocket was used to launch the first escape from Earth's gravity into a solar orbit, the first crash impact onto the surface of the Moon, and the first photography of the never-before-seen far side of the Moon. These were the Luna 1, Luna 2, and Luna 3 spacecraft. A 1963 conceptual model of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module
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After midnight passed in Moscow, the Soviet Union's Luna 2 intentionally crashed into the Moon on September 14, 1959, becoming the first man-made spacecraft to reach the Moon. It was actually the Soviet Union's second attempt to reach the Moon. Luna 1 had missed its target by about 3,700 miles after it launched in January of the same year.
LUNA 2 Soviet Rocket 1st to Hit SURFACE OF MOON Space Race Lead 1959 Newspaper Antique Price
Luna 2 spacecraft was the first man-made craft to reach the surface of the moon on this day, September 14 in the year 1959. It is also known as Lunik 2 and was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the moon. Luna2 (Image courtesy:giantfreakinrobot.com)
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The closest approach was at 10:25 UT on 4 March 1959. The craft's tiny radio transmitted information for 82 hours before contact was lost at a dis-tance of 655,000 kilometers from Earth, the greatest tracking distance for a humanmade object to date. The probe eventually entered heliocentric orbit and became the first American spacecraft to do so.
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Tuesday, 02 January 2024 NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: Luna 2 was the second of a series of spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon. The first spacecraft to land on the Moon, it impacted the lunar surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters.
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Luna 2 (September 1959) mission successfully hit the Moon's surface, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon. [8] This was Luna's only impact success out of six tries from September 1958 to September 1959. Flybys
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1959: Luna 2 becomes the first artifact of humanity to strike the moon. The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik-like probe from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sept. 12. It took 33.5 hours to reach.
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Luna 2 was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface.
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The Russian spacecraft, known as Lunik II, Luna II, and Lunar Probe, set off on its mission to the Moon on the 12 September 1959. The rocket followed a direct path to the Moon and landed two days.
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It failed to impact the Moon as planned and became the first artificial object to go into orbit around the Sun. Luna 2 (September 12, 1959) was the first spacecraft to strike the Moon, and Luna 3 (October 4, 1959) made the first circumnavigation of the Moon and returned the first photographs of its far side.
