The Proton-K/D launcher put the spacecraft into Earth parking orbit followed by translunar injection. Ranger 5 on a translunar trajectory. The door to the SIM bay had been explosively jettisoned during the translunar coast. After translunar injection came the maneuver called transposition, docking, and extraction. Moreover, it will be able to test nano-technologies in the adverse conditions of translunar trajectory. Translunar injection would then be before spacecraft rise at DSS 51 or 61.