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Mission
Kind: Lunar sample return
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: GSMZ Lavochkin
Date
Start:
Duration: 13 days
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K/D-1
Kind: GSMZ Lavochkin
Manufacturer: GSMZ Lavochkin
Mass: 5,800 kg (12,800 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 81/23
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Selenocentric
1º Orbit: Lunar
Lander
Place: Lunar
Region: 12°42′52″N 62°12′46″E / 12.7145°N 62.2129°E / 12.7145, 62.2129Coordinates: 12°42′52″N 62°12′46″E / 12.7145°N 62.2129°E / 12.7145, 62.2129
Date: 18 August 1976, 06:36 UTC
Luna 24 was a robotic probe of the Soviet Union's Luna programme. The last 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 first two sample return missions were Luna 16 and Luna 20). The probe landed in Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises). The mission returned 170.1 grams (6.00 oz) of lunar samples to the Earth on 22 August 1976, and remains the most recent Lunar sample return mission.
