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Luna 17 carried Lunokhod 1, the first in a series of robot lunar roving vehicles whose conception had begun in the early 1960s, originally as part of the piloted lunar landing operations.
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Luna and 17
This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
One of the items is Lunokhod 1 and its spacecraft Luna 17 ; they sell for $ 68, 500.
** The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17.
Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970 at 14: 44: 01 UTC.
Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1 landing site photographed by LRO
Ownership of Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander was sold by the Lavochkin Association for in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York ( although the catalog incorrectly lists lot 68A as Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1 ).
The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17.
Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970 at 14: 44: 01 UTC.
* Luna 17
* NSSDC Master Catalog: Spacecraft: Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1
( The catalog incorrectly lists lot 68A as Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1 ).
* Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1 – 10 November 1970 – First lunar rover
As Luna 3 drew closer to the Earth, a total of about 17 viewable but poor quality photographs were transmitted by 18 October.
In the previous year, on the 17th of November 1970 at 03: 47 Universal Time the Soviet spacecraft Luna 17 made a soft landing in the mare, at latitude 38. 28 N, and longitude 35. 00 W. It was carrying the Lunokhod 1 remote-controlled rover, which was successfully deployed and undertook a mission lasting several months.
Luna 17
Luna 17 and Luna 21 carried vehicles that roamed around on the Moon's terrain ( see Lunokhod programme ).
* Luna 17 / Lunokhod 1
After a mid-course correction the day after launch, Luna 15 entered lunar orbit at 10: 00 UT on 17 July 1969.
The Luna 16 automatic station was launched toward the Moon from a preliminary Earth orbit and after one mid-course correction on 13 September it entered a circular 111km with 70 ° inclination lunar orbit on 17 September 1970.
Luna 17 ( Ye-8 series ) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 17.
Luna and carried
Unlike its predecessors, Luna 7 successfully carried out its mid-course correction on October 5 on the way to the Moon, in anticipation of a soft-landing two days later.
The spacecraft is believed to have been similar to Luna 12 and the instrumentation was similar to that carried by Luna 10.
Luna 14 also carried scientific instruments to study cosmic rays and charged particles from the Sun, although few details have been revealed.
Luna 21 carried the second successful Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2, and was launched less than a month after the last Apollo lunar landing.
In order to understand the micrometeoroid population better, a number of spacecraft ( including Lunar Orbiter 1, Luna 3, Mars 1 and Pioneer 5 ) have carried micrometeoroid detectors.
Both the unsuccessful American 1962 Ranger landers and the successful Soviet 1966 Luna landers were unmanned spherical capsules ejected at the last moment from mother ships that had carried them to the Moon and crashed onto its surface.
Luna was also hurt after she had carried Sable in their match, as Sable was universally congratulated while Luna was only consoled by Owen Hart.
Hypervelocity usually occurs during meteor showers and deep space reentries, as carried out during the Zond, Apollo and Luna programs.
Luna and Lunokhod
* 1970 – Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Rains ) on the Moon.
** Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Rains ) on the Moon.
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2.
After landing, the Lunokhod 2 took TV images of the surrounding area, then rolled down a ramp to the surface at 01: 14 UT on 1973-01-16 and took pictures of the Luna 21 lander and landing site.
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover ( Lunokhod 2 ) in January, 1973.
After landing, the Lunokhod 2 took TV images of the surrounding area, then rolled down a ramp to the surface at 01: 14 UT on January 16 and took pictures of the Luna 21 lander and landing site, driving for 30 metres.
Ownership of Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander was sold by the Lavochkin Association for $ 68, 500 in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
* Luna 21 / Lunokhod 2 – 8 January 1973 – Lunar rover
* Luna 21 / Lunokhod 2
Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1 landing site photographed by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | LRO
Luna and 1
* 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
* 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
** The Soviet Union successfully launches the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
** Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 grams ( 1. 94 oz ) of lunar soil.
* Luna 1 – first lunar flyby
* August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1, 500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U. S. ( St. Augustine is founded in 1565.
On the way, it measured the solar wind, a constant stream of charged particles flowing outwards from the Sun, confirming the measurements by Luna 1 in 1959.
The trapped radiation was first mapped out by Explorer 4, Pioneer 3 and Luna 1.
Launched in 1959, Luna 1 was the first known man-made object to achieve escape velocity from the Earth.
Before the Soviet Luna 9 mission ( landing four months before Surveyor 1 ) and the Surveyor project, it was unknown how deep the dust on the Moon was.
Thus, the Surveyor 1 landing in June 1966, only four months after the Soviet Luna 9 probe landed in February, was an indication the programs were at similar stages.
* Luna 1 – 2 January 1959 – First lunar flyby ( attempted lunar impact?
Luna 1 ( E-1 series ), first known as First Cosmic Ship, then known as Mechta (, lit.
Luna 1 then became the first man-made object to reach heliocentric orbit and was then dubbed a " new planet " and renamed Mechta (" Dream ").
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