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Russians Landed on Moon Before Americans Saturday, July 04, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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In July 1969, the telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire, were tracking the Americans' Eagle Lander carrying astronauts towards the moon's surface. Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer, was among the team listening to transmissions coming from the area of space and began tracking the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Luna 15, which was trying to collect samples of lunar soil and rock and then return to Earth before the US mission. (source: telegraph.co.uk)
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