Luna 16
LanderDescent stage with a drill arm, topped by an ascent stage that launched a sealed sample capsule back to Earth.
- Launch mass
- 5,700 kg
- Size
- 1.5 m × 3.5 m
- Built by
- Lavochkin
- Last contact
- 24 Sept 1970
- Designator
- 1970-072A
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- Launched
- 12 Sept 197013:25:53 UTC
- Last contact
- 24 Sept 1970
- Duration
- 12 days
- Destinations
- Moon
The first robotic mission to bring samples back from another world, returning 101 grams of lunar soil from Mare Fecunditatis.
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Spacecraft
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Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.