The Soviet Luna 21 probe delivers Lunokhod 2 to the Moon: another success for the project team led by Professor Alexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian of the Lavochkin Center in Russia. Part of the project team, as with Lunokhod 1, is Edward Chistov of our association Il COSMo. The Lunokhod 2 mission is the second Lunokhod to launch to the Moon; the Apollo missions are over, and the Soviets know they finally have the Moon all to themselves… The landing site, Taurus Mountains on January 16, is only 180 km from where the Americans landed with Apollo 17 a few weeks earlier. It transmits images every 3 seconds this time and travels a full 37 km until May, when it becomes stuck in a lunar crater.
