K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

Luna 9 Spacecraft

thumbnail of courseware graphic
read or write comments about this resource
Comments ( 1 ) 		read or subimt reviews of this resource
Reviews ( 0 )
save this resource to your workspace
Save to Workspace
  
Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Aerospace Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): Ed Grayzeck
Organization: NASA
Department: Virtual Space Museum
Description: " National Space Science Data Center Header Luna 9 NSSDC ID: 1966-006A Description Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon's surface to Earth, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 soft lander by about 4 months. The probe also proved that the lunar surface could support the weight of a lander and that an object would not sink into a loose layer of dust as some models predicted. Luna 9 launched on 31 January 1966 at 11:41 UT (14:41 Moscow time) from Baikonur Cosmodrome and reached the Moon on 3 February."
Rating:
  
Related Resources
Keywords: space exploration, NASA, Luna mission, Lunar missions, Luna 9
   
Usage Tip
Use of Resource: History of technology
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1966-006A
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS