Luna 4 (Ye-6 No.4), a Soviet attempt at the first soft lunar landing, launched on a Molniya-L from Baikonur on 2 April 1963. After a successful translunar injection, a failed midcourse correction left it on a flyby path missing the Moon by about 8,400 km.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1963, 08:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1963-008
- Launches in 1963
- 11th of 69
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