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Luna-16 returned lunar soil after Apollo-11. If Luna-15, the previous one, succeeded, that would be another story :) but it didn't.
by avmich 7y ago
Luna-16 returned lunar soil after Apollo-11.
If Luna-15, the previous one, succeeded, that would be another story :) but it didn't.
- hn23 7y agoNevertheless it is technically pretty impressive if you take the computers of that time, esp those made in Russia, into consideration. The Russians where into unmanned space exploration pretty early.
- jbay808 7y agoLuna 9 landed before Surveyor did, too. It's funny, my Russian friend and I were playing Timelines and the moon landing came up. We couldn't agree on the date; she insisted that "the moon landings" were in 1966, when the first robots landed on the moon. Apparently in Russia that's what they teach as the key milestone. And when I think about it, it's no less valid.