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Luna Ye-8
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Luna Ye-8
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The basic Ye-8 was deigned to soft land on the Moon and deliver an automatic, self-propelled lunar vehicle, Lunokhod, for purposes of surveying sites for later manned landings and lunar bases. It was also intended that the spacecraft would provide a radio homing beacon for precision landings of later manned spacecraft.
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Luna Ye-8-5
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Unmanned lunar soil sample return.
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Luna Ye-8-LS
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Lunar surface mapping. Lunar Orbit (Selenocentric). Investigation of the moon and near-lunar space from the orbit of an artificial satellite.
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Luna Ye-8-5M
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Lunar sample return. Conduct of further scientific investigation of the moon and circumlunar space.
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