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🚀April 3, 1966 marked a historic milestone when the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna-10 entered lunar orbit, becoming the world’s first artificial satellite of the celestial body closest to Earth. 👏This achievement represented an unprecedented scientific and technological breakthrough. 🌗The station was launched on March 31, 1966. During its mission, it completed 460 orbits around the Moon and operated for 56 days. Over this period, more than 200 radio communication sessions with Earth were conducted. 🔎Luna-10 provided valuable data on the Moon’s gravitational and magnetic fields, the Earth’s magnetotail, as well as preliminary information on the chemical composition and radioactivity of the lunar surface rocks. 🥇Luna-10 transmitted the melody of “The Internationale,” which was broadcast during the opening of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—serving as a symbolic demonstration of the success of the Soviet space program.