Jalopnik has some wonderful pictures of relics from the Soviet Lunar Lander program, abandoned after the success of Apollo 11.
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That one looks like a sad robot. Neat stuff.
Yeah, it does look pretty miffed that it didn't make it to the moon. You can almost see little tears of oil...
Does anyone else think that the first picture after following the link looks like a robot playing a drum?