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Impactor spacecraft
Luna 2On the 23rd of September 1958, an unnamed Soviet probe exploded on the launchpad. This marked the first failure in a series of attempts to reach the Moon…
Deep Impact (spacecraft)A comet-impact mission first appeared on NASA's desk in 1996. Engineers at the agency were skeptical that a probe could hit such a moving target.