Luna 24

12.710° 62.210° · Mare Crisium

Final Soviet lunar mission until the 2020s.

Trajectory

Direct trajectory and automated sample return from Mare Crisium, final Soviet lunar mission until Luna 25 in 2023. Returned 170 g of regolith including the first sample with detected water-bearing minerals, only rediscovered in modern reanalysis decades later.

Source: Roscosmos

Details

Operator: Lavochkin
Country: Soviet Union
Era: soviet
Duration: 14 days