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Luna E-8-5 No.402 also known as Luna Ye-8-5 No.402 and sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1969C was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1969. It was a 5600-kilogram (12300 lb) Luna E-8-5 spacecraft the first of eight to be launched. It was intended to perform a soft landing on the Moon collect a sample of lunar soil and return it to the Earth.