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Press release from St. Louis Science Center:
May 9, 2022
On this date in 1965, the unmanned Soviet lunar probe, Luna 5, was launched. This spacecraft was intended to become the first to soft-land on the moon. However, after technical difficulties, it crashed into the moon near Copernicus crater and became the second Soviet probe to hit the Moon.
This press release was produced by St. Louis Science Center. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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