Luna 15 (Ye-8-5 No.401), a Soviet uncrewed lunar sample-return probe launched on a Proton-K/Blok D from Baikonur three days before Apollo 11; after lunar orbit it crashed in Mare Crisium on 21 July during its landing attempt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 14th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 13 July 1969, 02:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1969-058
- Launches in 1969
- 68th of 125
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