Luna E-8 No.201 (Luna 1969A), the first Soviet attempt to soft-land and deploy a Lunokhod rover. Proton-K/Blok D from Baikonur Site 81/24 on 19 February 1969 failed when the new payload shroud collapsed near max-Q, destroying the vehicle.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 10th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 19 February 1969, 06:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1969
- 17th of 125