Editing Luna programme (section)

=== Impactors ===
{{Main|Lander (spacecraft)#Impactors}}
[[File:RIAN archive 510848 Interplanetary station Luna 1 - blacked.jpg|thumb|upright|Luna 1 impactor]]

Impactor spacecraft had the generic designation of '''Ye-1''' (or '''E-1''' depending on transliteration from Russian) and were designed to hit the near side of the Moon.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luna Ye-1 |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna_e1.htm |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Luna Ye-1A |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna_e1a.htm |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref> [[Luna 1]] (January 1959) missed its intended impact with the Moon and became the first spacecraft to escape the Earth-Moon system.<ref name=siddiqi1/> [[Luna 2]] (September 1959) mission successfully hit the Moon's surface, becoming the first man-made object to reach the Moon.<ref name=siddiqi2>{{cite book|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf|title=Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016|page=2|last1=Siddiqi |first1=Asif A.|lccn=2017059404|isbn=9781626830424|publisher=NASA History Program Office|edition=second|year=2018|id=SP2018-4041|series=The NASA history series|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> This was Luna's only impact success out of six tries from September 1958 to September 1959.