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Image:Luna9.jpg 300px Luna IX schematic Image:Luna9engine.jpg 300px Closed loop engine used for Luna 9 mission Image:Luna9mockup.jpg 300px Luna IX ALS mockup at Energia museum Image:Luna9payload1.jpg 300px Luna IX pennants delivered to the moon Image:Luna9pennants2.jpg 300px Luna IX pennant delivered to the moon Category:Spacecraft

... August: At 15:04 GMT (18:04 Moscow time) 9 Aug., Luna 24 , an automatic space probe, was launched toward the moon "from the orbit of an ... be sampled. The area differed from the Sea of Felicity-site of landings by Luna 16 (1970) and Luna 20 (1972)-not only in age but also in the presence of mascons ... Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where lunar samples returned by Luna 16 and Luna 20 had been studied. Pravda was quoted as stating that the 1970 mission of ...

... and require further development... During the flight of the Luna 7 spacecraft, much practical material was collected for further studies." ''(Pravda, 10/9/65, ATSS-T Trans.)'' Soviet Professor V. Ivanchenko, writing in Izvestia, implied that LUNA VII spacecraft had crashed against the moon's surface ...

... LUNA V , a 3,254-lb. instrumented moon probe, was successfully launched by U.S.S. ... U.S.S.R. station tracking the probe was receiving "scientific information," Tass reported that LUNA V was "moving along a trajectory close to the planned one," At 10:00 p ... earth. ''(Tass, 5/9/65)'' Sir Bernard Lovell , director of the radiotelescope facility at Jodrell Bank, England, said that the telescope would try to track Soviet lunar probe LUNA V on May ...

Image:LunaIprobe.jpg 300px Luna I probe Image:Luna1Estage.jpg 300px Luna I probe inside E Stage Image:Luna1launcher.jpg 300px Luna I probe and E stage on R-7 booster Category:Spacecraft

Image:Luna2.jpg 300px Luna II probe Image:Luna2mockup.jpg 300px Luna II mockup at Energia museum Image:Luna2payload.jpg 300px Luna II pennants delivered to moon's surface Category:Spacecraft

Image:Luna3.jpg 300px Luna III probe Image:Luna3mockup.jpg 300px Luna III mockup at Energia museum Category:Spacecraft

... LUNA X had detected electrons with energies higher than cosmic radiation, Tass reported: "Data have been ... . scientists, including Dr. James A. Van Allen , State Univ. of Iowa, believed radiation observed by LUNA X was either the earth's comet tail or a similar feature produced by the ... electronics are `within reach,' but considerably more investigation is required." ''(Haggerty, J/Armed Forces, 4/9/66, 9)'' April 1966 April Apr 1 1966 1 Apr 2 1966 2 Apr 3 1966 ...

NASA began distribution to 24 U.S. scientists of lunar soil samples returned by Soviet Luna 16 spacecraft and exchanged by U.S.S.R. for Apollo 11 and 12 samples ... Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for R&D see July 1 . ''(Langley Researcher, 7/9/71, 1)'' Award to Global Associates of $4-million, one-year, cost-plus- award-fee ... outer space, had been presented to Soviet Academy of Sciences for Luna 16 , Tass reported. ''(FSis-Sov-71-133, 7/9/71, L2)'' Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) said at Washington, D ...

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