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Subject: MN-LEG-H-15596
Source: GDELT news · original
Published: Monday, May 25, 2026

On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a vast basalt plain on the near side of the Moon. The lander deployed a remote-controlled rover called Lunokhod 1, the first robotic vehicle ever to operate on the surface of another world. The rover was, by every […]

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