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April 2 1969

Soviet Union - Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome)

This Mars mission has been tentatively identified as an attempt at a landing. The payload was an M-69 class probe (#522) with a total mass of 3495 kg. The first stage of the SL-12/D-1-e (8K82K, #233-01 + 11S824) launcher failed almost immediately after liftoff.