Mission Type: Lander Launch Vehicle: Modified SS-6 (Sapwood)
with second-generation upper stage + escape stage; 8K78M (no.
N103-45) Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), USSR;
NIIP-5 / launch site 1 Spacecraft Mass: 1,620 kg at launch, 112
kg surface capsule Spacecraft Instruments: 1) TV cameras; 2)
infrared radiometer; 3) penetrometer; 4) radiation densitometer;
and 5) radiation detector Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of
Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000, Monographs in
Aerospace History No. 24, by Asif A. Siddiqi National Space
Science Data Center, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Solar System
Log by Andrew Wilson, published 1987 by Jane's Publishing Co.
Ltd. Luna 13 became the second Soviet spacecraft to successfully
soft-land on the surface of the Moon. The probe landed in the
Ocean of Storms at 18:01 UT on 24 December 1966, between the
Krafft and Seleucus craters at 18°52' north latitude and 62°3'
west longitude. Unlike its predecessor, the heavier Luna 13
lander (113 kilograms) carried a su