Surgut, on the Ob River, Siberia. Amphibious military vehicles and half a dozen MIL helicopters are on the scene. Suddenly, a sonic boom is heard. The probe carrying lunar soil samples is returning. They pick up the radio signal, track it, and recover it. It is the third return of Soviet lunar samples. The first is Luna 16 from the Sea of Fertility, the second is Luna 20 with a small sample from the Apollonius Highlands, but Luna 24 has drilled a core into the lunar soil. It will be the last Soviet lunar mission.
