Luna 24 was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union Luna programme and the twenty fourth mission of the Luna series of spacecraft. It was the third Soviet mission to return lunar soil samples to Earth, landing in Mare Crisium and bringing back about 170.1 grams of lunar material on August 22, 1976.
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Spacecraft Type Status
Status (category)Mission Complete / Ended 1 In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Luna 24 (Wikipedia)
The mission returned 170.1 g (6.00 oz) of lunar samples to the Earth on 22 August 1976View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Luna 24
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Lunar sample return
- In Group: Luna Programme Lunar Landers, lead sentence: robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme, third Soviet lunar sample-return mission
View the Source3. Wikidata: Luna 24
Wikidata Q657771, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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