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LUNA 24
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Luna 24 was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. The 24th mission of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to return lunar soil samples from the Moon. The probe landed in Mare Crisium. The mission returned 170.1 g (6.00 oz) of lunar samples to the Earth on 22 August 1976.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 9, 1976 at 03:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/D-1 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Luna-24
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9272
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 18, 1976
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 18, 1976
- Time in service
- 9 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed