Category:Luna 3

**Luna 3**
	lunar probe, first-ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon
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Instance of	lunar probe;
Operator	Soviet Union;
Start point	Gagarin's Start; Baikonur Cosmodrome;
Manufacturer	S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia;
Space launch vehicle	Luna;
UTC date of spacecraft launch	4 October 1959;
Type of orbit	circumlunar trajectory;
Significant event	rocket launch (1959, Gagarin's Start); atmospheric entry (1960); planetary flyby (Moon, 6,200 kilometre, 1959);
Part of the series	Luna programme;
Mass	278.5 kg (takeoff);
Follows	Luna 2;
Followed by	Luna E-3 No.1;
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