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from the Luna 9 lander, 1966, three years before Apollo 11.

But the first photo from the surface came earlier, and unofficially, in the Daily Mail of London. The Brits intercepted the transmission from the moon and printed the first image from the lunar surface.

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  1. Backside of the 1966 photo, with writing indicating where in a newspaper it would run.I have the photo with a spare petal from the Planting a Flower on the Moon — Luna 9Luna 9 programThe full flower of ’66Luna-9-1The bounce, roll and bloom1966 Russian Lunar 9 unmanned lander transmitted panoramic pictures of the

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