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One sheet vintage
Soviet propaganda poster from 1970 celebrating the Luna 16 robotic mission, the first successful automatic return of lunar soil to Earth.
Poster Details

Artist: V. Viktorov
Year: 1970
Mission: The poster commemorates the Luna 16 mission, an uncrewed Soviet space probe that landed on the Moon and returned a sample of lunar soil (regolith).
Historical Significance: Luna 16 was the third overall lunar sample return mission, following NASA's Apollo 11 and 12, but the very first to achieve this feat fully automatically with a robotic probe. It successfully returned a 101-gram sample from the Sea of Fertility (Mare Fecunditatis).
Key Dates:
Launched: September 12, 1970
Landed on Moon: September 20, 1970
Returned to Earth: September 24, 1970
Text and Translation: The poster includes several powerful slogans in Russian:
(Slava Trudu!): Glory to Labour!
(Slava Nauke!): Glory to Science!
(Eto nash um, eto nashi ruki!): This is our mind, these are our hands!
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