Vintage Luna 10 Soviet Robotic Spacecraft Space Model

Description

Detailed presentational custom handmade model of Luna 10 (Lunik 10); overall heights 12.1/2” with stand. metal, resin.
Very fine.
Luna 10 was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit any body beyond the Earth. The primary objectives were to achieve the first lunar orbit, gain experience in orbital operations, presumably as a precursor to cosmonaut orbital missions, and study the lunar environment.
The launch was timed so that the spacecraft would come around on its first orbit just as the Twenty-third Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was convening for its morning session. The Luna-10 automatic station was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on March 31, 1966, with the Molniya-M launch vehicle.