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Zond

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Zond [zɒnd]
n
(Astronautics) any of a series of unmanned Soviet spacecraft, first launched in 1964 as interplanetary space probes, the most successful of which, Zond 3, sent back photographs of the hidden side of the moon in 1965


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Oddly enough, the development of these appears to be more advanced than Russian projects announced much earlier, notably the Sukhoi Zond 1,2 and 3.
Gipe, communications director in the 1970s for Zond Systems, envisioned turbine designs being quickly improved, with major advances coming from the United States.
September, 1968: Soviet Zond 5-first earth craft to go round the moon and return to earth.
 
 
 
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