Luna 2
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| Launch date | September 12, 1959, 8:39 AM GMT+2 |
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| Impact date | 13 September 1959, 21:02:24 UTC |
| Rocket | Luna |
| Names | Soviet |
| Manufacturers | Energia |
| Harvard designation | 1959 ξ 1 |
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| ID | 1009402 |
About Luna 2
Luna 2, originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon. The spacecraft was launched on 12 September 1959 by the Luna 8K72. It followed a direct path to the Moon.
