Luna 23 (Ye-8-5M), a Soviet automated lunar sample-return lander designed for a deep core sample. Proton-K/D from Baikonur Site 81/24 lofted the craft on 28 October 1974; it tipped over on landing in Mare Crisium, damaging the drill so no samples returned.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 4.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 36th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1974, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1974-084
- Launches in 1974
- 90th of 113
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