Luna

Luna Missions

• Soviet Russia
• Luna 1
• Luna 5
• Luna 7
• Luna 16 & 17
• Zond Missions
• The Nedelin Disaster
• Questions for Candy

Soviet Russia

• The year 1959 the first of the Luna mission's on it's way
• No thoughts of ever manning a mission
• Luna one is named and set a date in Januray
• At this time they are a communist govermant
• Already in not good terms with america the infamous space race is soon to begin
• Stalin Dies in 1953 and the soviet union sets of its first hydrogen bomb
• Purpose to not only test the surface of the moon hard and soft landings

Luna 1

• Luna 1 Launched 02 Jan 1959 Lunar Flyby
• Not manned and not planned on hitting the moon either
• First Cosmic Ship, was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth's Moon
• First ship to break earth's gravitinal pull

Luna 5 Failure

• First attempt of a soft landning on the surface of the moon
• Crashes in a burning fire into the surface near the sea of clouds
• The gyroscope malfunctioned then causes the man thruster to explode
• Luna 5 Launched 09 May 1965 Impacted Moon - Sea of Clouds

Luna 7

• Luna 7 Launched 04 Oct 1965 Lunar Impact - Sea of Storms
• Was an unmanned space mission also called Lunik 7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.

Luna 7

• The spacecraft suddenly lost attitude control and failed to regain it. It failed to launch its main engines

Luna 16 & 17

• Luna 16 Launched 12 Sep 1970 Landed on Moon 20 Sep 1970 at Mare Fecunditatis Lunar Sample Return
• Luna 17 Launched 10 Nov 1970 Landed on Moon 17 Nov 1970 at Mare Imbrium Lunar Rover - Lunokhod 1
• The first 2 Lunar landers by the soviets to return with samples

The Zond Missions

• Not to much on the Zond missions
• After Luna missions
• Only 3 main missions all flybys including venus and mars

Nedelin Disaster

• 150 dead a strange radio wave attivated the r-16 rockket facts Black monday 1960 october 24 the Nedelin disaster 250 on the launch pad 41 IP-1B 30 minutes before scheduled launch fire engulfs launcher 2 10 minutes of explosions and a fireball sends out 120 meters in diameter incinerates most and what's left is a hellish landscape of burning humans running towards the safety center soon to be gassed by the fumes of the rocket all because the safety inspectors went off for a smoke
• Basically, the Soviets were in a huge rush to launch this R-16 rocket before Nov. 7 to commemorate the anniversary of the revolution, so they were under a lot of pressure and cut corners in testing, etc. Even when problems occurred on launch day they ignored many safety procedures, did work on the rocket while it was fueled when normally they would remove the fuel before working on it, and ignored small problems that cropped up with the rocket components. On top of that, apparently one of the circuits was routed directly to the second stage engine from the ground accidentally. And because of the rush and the problems, the engineers were still swarming all over the rocket when they should have been out of the area only a half hour before launch time. Apparently what happened, and you should read the book to verify I have all this correct, was an order was given to set a certain switch to a "ready" point a half hour before liftoff, when it wasn't supposed to be set to that until a minute before launch, possibly to save time. The faulty circuit allowed the impulse to go directly to the second stage, igniting the second stage engines which caused the ensuing explosion of the first stage as well, killing some 100 engineers and scientists. But definitely read the sections on the disaster to get a better understanding of it.

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Luna 5

Luna 10

Sheet Questions

• The Soviet Union
• 1959
• Purpose to not only test the surface of the moon hard and soft landings
• The luna missions have been closed
• The Russian space corpation yes luna no

Questions

• What infamous soviet leader died?
• How many firsts did Luna missions complete?
• How many una missions where there how many Zond?
• Where did the Zond missions go?
• What rocket was in the nedelin disaster?

Resources

• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html
• Dave Williams