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* Luna 24 – 9 August 1976 – Lunar robotic sample return
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* 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
Another major achievement of the Luna programme, with the Luna 16, Luna 20 and Luna 24 spacecraft, was the ability to collect samples of lunar soil and return them to Earth, by 1970.
As controllers observed helplessly, Luna 7 plummeted to the lunar surface at a very high speed, crashing at 22: 08: 24 UT on October 7, 1965, west of the Kepler crater, relatively near the actual intended target.
A soil sample from Mare Crisium was successfully brought to Earth on 22 August 1976 by the Soviet lunar mission Luna 24.
* 24: sacrifices to Luna on the Graecostasis ; and the first of three days when the mysterious ritual pit called the mundus was opened
* Luna, New Mexico, celebrates " Mormon Pioneer Day " on the Saturday closest to July 24 at the village rodeo grounds with a parade, rodeo and dance
Rock band Luna Sea held a one night reunion concert titled " God Bless You ~ One Night Dejavu ~" on December 24, 2007.
Luna and –
* 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta )
* 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
* 1969 – Sugizo Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor ( Luna Sea, X Japan, Juno Reactor, and S. K. I. N.
* 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
* 1970 – Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Rains ) on the Moon.
* 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
* October 7 – The U. S. S. R. probe Luna 3 sends back the first ever photos of the far side of the Moon.
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