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Space materials
The creations by Louis Moinet are fascinating capsules that contain exceptional material, hence genuine bits of history.
Several Louis Moinet timepieces celebrate the association of watchmaking and space and stand out for their incorporation of outstanding materials carefully collected from major space missions. These elements, which have journeyed through space enduring extreme conditions, are witnesses to key moments of space exploration.
The creations by Louis Moinet are fascinating capsules that contain exceptional material, hence genuine bits of history.
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The U.S. orchestrated a succession of Apollo space missions, drawing ever closer to this goal. It was Apollo 11 that enabled humankind to set foot on the Moon for the first time. The giant Saturn V rocket left the Kennedy Space Center on July 16th 1969, and the crew landed on the night star on July 21st 1969. The first steps on the Moon were filmed by a video camera and broadcast live, an event watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world.1
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Luna 9 was the Soviet space probe that made the first successful lunar soft landing. It was a real feat at the time, following a long series of failures. Soviet astronautics lost 26 space probes between 1962 and 1965 without a single success.
Launched on January 31st 1966 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Luna 9 landed in the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum) on February 3rd 1966, giving the world the first panoramic images of the lunar surface.
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In 1975, the USA and the Soviet Union launched a joint mission that would become the first extraterrestrial meeting in the history of humanity.
On July 17, at 7.20 p.m., Alexei Leonov, commander of the Soviet mission, prepared to take this remarkable step. The most powerful symbol of this alliance was the moment he opened the door to the hatch connecting the two crafts and shook hands with his American counterpart, Commander Thomas Stafford.
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On 21 July 2012, the Japanese rocket H-IIB soared across the Pacific sky on its way into orbit. Its mission that day was to carry the H-Transfer Vehicle (HTV), known as Kounotori, to the International Space Station (ISS). It had some essentials on board for the astronauts, like replacement parts for the ISS, and various experimentation devices and research apparatus.
