Biography

50 years ago, on January 8, 1973, the Luna-21 station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. A week later, she made a successful landing on the moon, delivering to its surface on January 15, 1973, the remotely controlled self-propelled planetary rover Lunokhod-2.
The mass of the station was 5700 kg, "Lunokhod-2" - 836 kg.
Lunokhod-2 worked for four months, transmitting 86 panoramas and about 80,000 television frames to Earth, and traveled 39 kilometers, which is about four times more than its predecessor, the Lunokhod-1 self-propelled planetary rover.
The work of the self-propelled planetary rover "Lunokhod-2" has become an important stage in the exploration of outer space by mankind with the help of automatic planetary stations.
Alexander RA3EME