Luna E-1 No.1 (Luna 1958A), the first Soviet lunar-impactor attempt and first Luna programme flight, was lost when its Vostok-L 8K72 broke up at T+92 s over Baikonur from longitudinal pogo resonance that ruptured strap-on propellant lines.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 9 Vostok-L 8K72 flights
- Date and time
- 23 September 1958, 07:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-L 8K72
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1958
- 20th of 28