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Luna 7 (E-6 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Luna program also called Lunik 7. The Luna 7 spacecraft was intended to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. However due to premature retrofire and cutoff of the retrorockets the spacecraft impacted the lunar surface in Oceanus Procellarum.Unlike its predecessors Luna 7 successfully carried out its mid-course correction on October 5 on the way to the Moon in anticipation of a soft-landing two days later.
