Goals: Luna 14's primary goal was to test communications systems in support of the Soviet effort to send cosmonauts to the Moon. It was also to provide data for studies of various phenomena in the lunar environment.
Accomplishments: In addition to testing the communications systems, it provided data for studies of the lunar gravitational field, the solar wind, cosmic rays, lunar motion, and the interaction of the Earth and lunar masses.
This was the final flight of the second generation Luna spacecraft.