Luna 16 lifts off

by: Steven Hobbs/Novapix
Reference: e-son16-00200
Date: 2009-06-17

The automated Soviet Luna 16 probe's upper stage blasts off with 100 grams of precious lunar soil that will be studied by Soviet scientists on Earth.This space probe successfully completed an Earth-Moon-Earth mission from September 12, 1970 to September 24, 1970.

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