Luna E-6 No.5, a Soviet Ye-6 soft-landing lunar probe launched on a Molniya 8K78 from Baikonur; launch-vehicle control-system power loss caused premature engine shutdown at T+340 s, so the probe never left Earth trajectory.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 19th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 1964, 08:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1964
- 24th of 100