Luna 21 (Ye-8 No.204) delivered the Lunokhod 2 robotic lunar rover to the Moon. Proton-K/Blok-D from Baikonur Site 81 soft-landed in Le Monnier crater on 15 January 1973; Lunokhod 2 then drove roughly 39 km before mission end.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 8 January 1973, 06:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1973-001
- Launches in 1973
- 1st of 116
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