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Main » 2016 » May » 1 » 50th Anniversary of Luna-9 Moon landing.


50th Anniversary of Luna-9 Moon landing.
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On February 3, 2016 the Russian Federal Communications Agency issued the postal stationery (a post card) devoted to the 50th Anniversary of the first soft Moon landing performed by the Soviet “Luna-9”

Total edition is 19000 post cards.

The card was postmarked with the special official cancellation also devoted to the 50th Anniversary of Luna-9 Moon landing.

The “Luna-9” probe was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna program. On February 3, 1966 the “Luna-9” space probe became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, or any planetary body other than Earth, and to transmit photographic data to Earth from the surface of another planetary body.

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