• 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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    (1974) The Zond spacecraft was designed to take a crew around the Moon, but never achieved the required degree of safety or political need. Zond 5 did circle...
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    4 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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    launched. The successful missions were in operation concurrently with the Zond and Luna series of Moon flyby, orbiter and landing missions. The Lunokhods...
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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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    The Luna programme (from the Russian word Луна "Luna" meaning "Moon"), occasionally called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft...
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    The Vostok programme (/ˈvɒstɒk, vɒˈstɒk/; Russian: Восток, IPA: [vɐˈstok], translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first...
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    Soyuz 7K-L1 No.5L (category Zond program)
    sometimes identified by NASA as Zond 1967B, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1967 as part of the Zond programme. It was a 5,390-kilogram (11...
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    The Salyut programme (Russian: Салют, IPA: [sɐˈlʲut], meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet...
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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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