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Soviet Craft - Luna (5278 words) |
 | The Luna 13 spacecraft was launched toward the moon from an Earth-orbiting platform and accomplished a soft landing on December 24, 1966, in the region of Oceanus Procellarum. |
| The spacecraft instrumentation was similar to that of Luna 10 and provided data for studies of the interaction of the Earth and lunar masses, the lunar gravitational field, the propagation and stability of radio communications to the spacecraft at different orbital positions, solar charged particles and cosmic rays, and the motion of the Moon. |
| Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the moon and return a sample to Earth and represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and the third overall, following the Apollo11 and 12 missions. |
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Luna programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (647 words) |
| The Luna programme (occasionally called Lunik) was a series of unmanned space missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. |
| Luna 1 missed its intended impact with the Moon and became the first spacecraft to fall into orbit around the Sun. |
| Luna 3 rounded the Moon later that year, and returned the first photographs of its far side, which can never be seen from Earth. |
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