Uncrewed missions and their parent programs sent to orbit, land on or return samples from the Moon: the Soviet Luna program, China's Chang'e program and its numbered missions, and India's Chandrayaan programme and its numbered missions. Belongs here: a robotic lunar orbiter, lander, rover or sample-return mission and the program that carries it. Does not belong here: a crewed lunar mission, grouped under Crewed Lunar Program Missions, or a robotic mission targeting a body other than the Moon.
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1. Wikipedia: Luna programme
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The Luna programme, sometimes called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976.
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