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| .....The last of the Luna
series of spacecraft, the mission of the
Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet
mission to retrieve lunar ground samples
(the first two were returned by Luna 16
and 20). The probe landed in the area
known as Mare Crisium (Sea of Crisis).
The mission successfully returned 170
grams of lunar samples to the Earth on 22
August 1976. |
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