Luna 7 was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. However, due to premature retrofire and cutoff of the retrorockets, the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface in the Sea of Storms.

  • Launch Date/Time: 1965-10-04 at 07:55:00 UTC
  • On-orbit dry mass: 1504 kg