OTD In Space – August 9: Luna 24 Sample Return Mission Launches To The Moon - video Dailymotion

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On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission.   Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind. It lifted off on a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and safety landed on the lunar surface nine days later. The probe landed in a dark plain known as Mare Crisium, or the "Sea of Crises" and collected 6 ounces (170.1 grams) of soil samples, which is brought back to Earth on August 22. Scientists then found that the samples from Luna 24 contained tiny traces of water — about 0.1 percent by mass.

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00:00 On this day in space.

00:03 In 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission.

00:07 Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind.

00:11 It lifted off on a Proton K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

00:15 and safely landed on the lunar surface nine days later.

00:18 The probe landed in a dark plane known as Mer Cresium, or the Sea of Crises,

00:23 and collected six ounces of soil samples, which it brought back to Earth on August 22.

00:28 Scientists later found that the soil samples from Luna 24 contained tiny traces of water,

00:33 about 0.1 percent by mass.

00:36 And that's what happened on this day in space.

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OTD In Space – August 9: Luna 24 Sample Return Mission Launches To The Moon

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