As the world watches the current Mars rover, Curiosity, on its exploratory mission, it’s worth noting the Soviet Union landed a robotically controlled rover on the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 (the name literally means “moonwalker” in Russian) launched on November 10, 1970, and achieved a so...
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The original Sputnik watches were made from 1957 until 1960 (I think). I doubt this watch is that old though. The caseback has English text on it. Also, an original Soviet watch should have a text “Made in USSR" written in Cyrillic ("Cделано B CCCP"). This one does not ...
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