Jodrell Bank Lovell Telescope records Luna 15 crash

This is a recording from the Lovell Telescope that was tracking the Luna 15 Soviet spacecraft as it orbited the moon and began its decent. At the same time, transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts can be heard in the background. This was recorded over three days ending on July 21 at 3:50 PM when the spacecraft crashed. Copyright belongs to Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester

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[pleonic]

Where did that rumor come from? But it did have a little pod attached (you can see it at the top of the picture above) that was supposed to carry a bit of rock back to the USSR. They were able to retrieve samples using the same technique on later moon probes but not on this one.

[1Nekit1]

@isuckaman Damn!

[isuckaman]

Rumor has it that Luna 15 carried one cosmonaut who was supposed to land on the moon about a day before Apollo 11 did. The plan was to have the Russian hitch a ride back to earth with Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins thus making a Russian the first man to have landed on the moon and returned safely to earth. But, it just didn't work out that way.