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S. Raev
Original Vintage Poster Space Robot Probe Soviet Science Luna 16 USSR Moon Earth

1970

About the Item

Original vintage Soviet space race era propaganda poster - Glory to Labour! Glory To Science! This is Our Mind, These are our Hands! / Слава труду! Слава науке! Это наш ум, это наши руки! - featuring a red spacecraft with a robot arm named Luna-16 holding up a crescent moon in front of the earth with a starry space sky in the background, the message below reads - On 24 September 1970, for the first time in the history of space exploration, lunar soil was brought to earth by a Soviet spacecraft - the text in white letters. Part of the unmanned Луна Космическая Программа / Luna Space Programme (1958-1976), the Луна-16 / Luna 16 was a robotic probe with a stereo photographic imaging system (television camera and telecommunications equipment), a remote extendable arm and a radiation detector that successfully collected and returned a 101 gram soil sample from the moon making it the first fully automatic recovery of a lunar sample return. Good condition, restored tears on edges, small restored paper losses on right edge, backed on linen.
  • Creator:
    S. Raev
  • Creation Year:
    1970
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39.77 in (101 cm)Width: 26.38 in (67 cm)
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  • Condition:
    Good condition, restored tears on edges, small restored paper losses on right edge, backed on linen.
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU43612286092
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