Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Luna E-8-5 No.405 also known as Luna Ye-8-5 No.405 and sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1970A was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1970. It was a 5600-kilogram (12300 lb) Luna E-8-5 spacecraft the fifth 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.
