Luna 16
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Luna 16 was an uncrewed 1970 space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. The 101 grams sample was ret
Luna 16
Luna 16 at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
Luna 16 at the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
The Soviet Union 1970 CPA 3951 stamp )
Lunar Receiving Laboratory
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The Lunar Receiving Laboratory was a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program t
The Lunar Receiving Laboratory shortly after it was built.
First samples from the Moon being delivered to LRL in 1969