E-6 n°8 (Luna)

E-6 n°8, sometimes identified by NASA as Luna 1965A, was a Soviet spacecraft which was lost in a launch failure in 1965. It was a 1,422-kilogram Luna E-6 spacecraft, the seventh 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.