Luna 24, the Soviet Union’s third and final robotic lunar sample-return mission. Proton-K/D-1 from Baikonur Site 81/23 sent the lander to Mare Crisium; it returned about 170 g of regolith, ending the Luna program’s sample-return era.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Proton-K/D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 9 August 1976, 15:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/D-1
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1976-081
- Launches in 1976
- 82nd of 131
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