The Exploration Of The Moon by Greg Goebel

Author:Greg Goebel [Goebel, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

The entire spacecraft weighed 5,600 kilograms, with the rover itself weighing 1,815 kilograms. The Luna Ye-8 was launched by a Proton booster. The payload shroud and payload disintegrated, leading to loss of the Proton booster less than a minute into flight.

The Soviets launched the first "Luna Ye-8-5" lunar sample-return probe with a Proton booster on 14 June 1969. It was a big spacecraft, with a launch weight of 5,600 kilograms, and consisted of a four-footed lander that looked like a mass of spherical and cylindrical tanks, with a simple Earth-return "ascent stage" topped by a spherical re-entry module mounted on top. The re-entry vehicle would be loaded up by a sample collection arm fitted with a drill, and then the ascent stage would be shot back to Earth, with the re-entry module recovered by parachute. The lander stage would return temperature and other data until its batteries ran down. The Proton upper stage failed and the payload didn't make orbit.

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