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Spacecraft that impacted the Moon | HearLore
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Spacecraft that impacted the Moon
Ranger 4Ranger 4 was a spacecraft of the Ranger program, launched in 1962. It carried eight thousand six hundred eighty solar cells to generate power for its systems.
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…