Luna 2
Spacecraft
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, E-1 No.7. Wikipedia
Launch date: September 12, 1959 at 2:39 AM GMT-4
Manufacturer: Energia
Year: 1959
Mission duration: 2 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, 41 seconds
Names: Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket; Lunik 2
Rocket: Luna 8K72 s/n I1-7B
SATCAT no.: 00114