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