Luna E-3 No.1 (Luna 1960A), a Soviet circumlunar photographic probe with higher-resolution cameras than Luna 3, launched on a Vostok-L 8K72 from Baikonur on 15 April 1960. The Blok-E stage ran out of propellant mid-burn after incomplete tanking and the probe fell back into the atmosphere.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Lunar flyby
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 Vostok-L 8K72 flights
- Date and time
- 15 April 1960, 15:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-L 8K72
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1960
- 8th of 38