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    Zond 8, also known as L-1 No.14, was the last in the series of circumlunar spacecraft, a member of the Soviet Zond program, designed to rehearse a piloted...
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  • spacecraft Zond 4, spacecraft Zond 5, spacecraft Zond 3MV-1 No.2, spacecraft Zond 7, spacecraft Zond 8, spacecraft Zond 1964A, spacecraft Zond 1967A, spacecraft...
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  • Zond (Russian: Зонд, lit. 'probe') was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970. The first series...
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    Zond 5 (Russian: Зонд 5, lit. 'Probe 5') was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 it became the first spaceship to travel to and...
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    The Zond 7 spacecraft, part of the Soviet Zond program, was launched towards the Moon on a Proton-K D rocket on August 7, 1969. Its mission was to support...
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    Soyuz 7K-L1 (category Zond program)
    The Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond" spacecraft was designed to launch cosmonauts from the Earth to circle the Moon without going into lunar orbit in the context of...
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    Zond 3 was a 1965 space probe which performed a flyby of the Moon's far side, taking a number of quality photographs for its time. It was a member of the...
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    Zond 6 was a formal member of the Soviet Zond program, and an unpiloted version of the Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed Moon-flyby spacecraft. It was launched on a...
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    of the Soviets with their Zond spacecraft program. The first three Zonds were robotic planetary probes; after that, the Zond name was transferred to a...
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    landing, while Luna 10 became the first mission to enter orbit, and in 1968 Zond 5 became the first mission to carry lifeforms (tortoises) to close proximity...
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    areas. Zond 6, Zond 7 and Zond 8 made successful skip entries, although Zond 5 did not. The Chang'e 5-T1, which flew mission profiles similar to Zond, also...
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    ISBN 978-0-387-73976-2. "Zond 8, Landing Point" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, NASA Solar System Exploration - Zond 8, Splashdown area. ""COTS...
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    Phobos program Mars 96 Zond program Zond 1 Zond 1964A Zond 2 Zond 3 Zond 1967A Zond 1967B Zond 4 Zond 5 Zond 6 Zond 7 Zond 8 Progress (spacecraft) Progress-M...
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    Zond 1 was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. It was the second Soviet research spacecraft to reach Venus, although communications had failed by...
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  • Zond program (Зонд; Russian for "probe") was a Soviet robotic spacecraft program launched between 1964 and 1970, using two spacecraft series, one for interplanetary...
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  • officially becomes President of Egypt. October 20 The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe. New Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his...
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    April 2019. "Zond 8". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 10 February 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2019. "In Depth | Zond 8". Solar System...
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    reliable circumlunar flight (only the later Zond 7 and Zond 8 members of the programme were successful) and the Apollo 8 mission had already achieved that step...
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  • "T" for a designation prefix. Example: S-37 and T-10. Sukhoi Zond-1 Sukhoi Zond-2 Sukhoi Zond-3 www.3ebra.com, IT-Bureau Zebra -. "Sukhoi Company (JSC) -...
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    circumlunar flight. It had several test flights in the Zond program from 1967–1970 (Zond 4 to Zond 8), which produced multiple failures in the 7K-L1's reentry...
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  • Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Discussion". Space Policy. 14 (1): 5–8. 1998. Bibcode:1998SpPol..14....5.. doi:10.1016/S0265-9646(97)00038-6. "Ranger...
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    the spate of successes in Soviet lunar exploration begun by Luna 16 and Zond 8. Luna 17 carried Lunokhod 1, the first in a series of robot lunar roving...
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  • Zond 3MV-1 No.2 (or No. 4A ), also known as Venera 1964A in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1964 as part of the Zond program...
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    program to make its 1969 landing goal was provided by the Soviet Union's Zond 5 mission, which flew some living creatures, including Russian tortoises...
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    44th President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940 The Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 lunar probe. At 2:51 in the afternoon, the North Tower of the World Trade...
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  • two programs in the 1960s: crewed lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a crewed lunar landing...
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  • Proton-K/D Baikonur 81/23 Zond 8 Highly elliptical Spacecraft test In orbit Successful Final circumlunar flight of the Zond program. 12 December 10:54...
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    exploration (1959–1976) Ranger program — US Lunar hard-landing probes (1961–1965) Zond program — USSR Lunar exploration (1964–1970) Surveyor program — US Lunar...
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  • Ranger 4 Ranger 5 Ranger 6 Ranger 7 Ranger 8 Ranger 9 Zond program Zond 3 Zond 4 Zond 5 Zond 6 Zond 7 Zond 8 Surveyor Program Surveyor 2 Surveyor 3 Surveyor...
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    April 8, 1967; Zond 1967A on September 28, 1967; Zond 1967B on November 22, 1967; Zond 1968A on April 23, 1968; and Zond 1968B in July 1968. Zond 4 was...
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