Editing Luna programme (section)

=== Rovers ===
{{Main|Lunokhod programme}}
[[File:Luna and Lunokhod.png|thumb|Luna 17 lander with Lunokhod 1 rover payload]]
More sophisticated soft lander craft can deploy wheeled vehicles to explore a wider area of the lunar surface than the immediate landing site. Luna program landers with rovers had the generic designations of '''Ye-8''' ('''E-8''' depending on transliteration from Russian).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luna Ye-8 (Luna 17, 21 / Lunokhod 1, 2) |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna_e8.htm |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref>

The first attempted Lunokhod failed in February 1969. [[Luna 17]] (November 1970) and [[Luna 21]] (January 1973) carried [[Lunokhod]] vehicles, which were the first robotic wheeled vehicles to explore the Moon's terrain.<ref name="siddiqi2" /> [[Lunokhod 1]] travelled {{convert|10.5|km|mi}} in 322 days and returned more than 20,000 television images and 206 high-resolution panoramas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planetology.ru/panoramas/lunokhod1.php?language=english |title=Lunokhod 1 Panoramas|work=planetology.ru|access-date=April 30, 2013}}</ref> [[Lunokhod 2]] operated for about four months, and covered {{convert|42|km|mi}} of terrain,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/21923-soviet-moon-rover-driving-record.html|title=NASA Moon Probe Helps Revise Off-Planet Driving Record {{!}} Lunokhod 2|work=Space.com|first=Mike|last=Wall|date=July 11, 2013 |access-date=July 12, 2013}}</ref> A third Lunokhod was built and intended for launch in 1977, but never flew due to lack of launchers and funding.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/other-moon.html|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140511103222/http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-other-moon-landings-6457729/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-05-11|title=The Other Moon Landings|first=Andy|last=Chaikin|journal=Air & Space|date=February–March 2004}}</ref>