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Luna 16 lifts off

auteur: Steven Hobbs/Novapix

référence: e-son16-00200

Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 38 cm

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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