Scarce stapled NASA report booklet (NAS-5-9299) entitled “Scientific Results of Processing of Panoramas Obtained from Photographs of the Lunar Surface Taken from ‘Luna-9’” by Aleksandr I. Lebedinsky, a Russian scientist who served as professor of Cosmophysics and Geophysics at Moscow University. Dated June 13, 1966, the booklet, seven pages (with foldout of Luna-9 images), 8.5 x 11, is a reprint of the USSR Academy of Science Izdatel’stvo ‘NAUKA’ (1966). It begins: “On 3 Febuary, 1966 the Soviet automatic station ‘LUNA-9’ effected a soft landing on the lunar surface and transmitted to Earth with the aid of a television camera circular panoramas of the portion of lunar surface surrounding the station. This prominent scientific and technical achievement is the result of labor by a large association of scientists, engineers and workers of the Soviet Union. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR edited a book entitled ‘First Panoramas of the Lunar Surface,’ in which the obtained photographs have been reproduced with a documented precision, the description of the experiment is given and the first results of the preliminary processing are brought out. These results are briefly expounded in the present report.” In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing and expected light handling wear.
