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TIL the Soviets were trying to collect rock samples from the Moon with a probe at the exact same time the Appolo 11 mission was taking place in 1969. While Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the Moon, their probe malfunctioned and crashed into the surface miles away from them.

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