* Astronomy

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Home -> Astronomy News -> Space missions -> Luna 24
Post Info TOPIC: Luna 24
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: Luna 24 mission
Permalink  
 

Anniversary of the Luna 24 launch on the 9th August, 1976.

The probe landed in the area known as Mare Crisium (Sea of Crisis). The mission returned 170.1 grams of lunar samples to the Earth on 22 August 1976.
Read more



__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Luna 24
Permalink  
 

Luna 24 (Ye-8-5M series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 24. The last of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to retrieve Lunar soil samples from the moon of earth (the first two missions returning samples were Luna 16 and Luna 20).
Read more



__________________
Page 1 of 1  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Home -> Astronomy News -> Space missions -> Luna 24


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse 		Powered by ActiveBoard