E-6 n°6

Luna E-6 n°6, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1964A, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1964. It was a 1,422-kilogram Luna E-6 spacecraft, the fourth of twelve to be launched, It was intended to be the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon, a goal which would eventually be accomplished by the final E-6 spacecraft, Luna 9. Prior to the release of information about its mission, NASA correctly identified that it had been an attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon.