Some members of the Soviet State Commission for the Luna sample return spacecraft are shown in a photo from 1970 at Simferepol. Sitting in the foreground from left to right are Commission Chairman Georgiy Tyulin, Chief Designer Georgiy Babakin, and Minister of General Machine Building Sergey Afanasyev. The tall figure standing at the back on the right is Yuriy Koptev, who later became the director of the Russian Space Agency and was an engineer at the Lavochkin design bureau at the time. Sitting in the second row at left is Academician Boris Petrov, one of the principal international spokespersons for the Soviet space program.