Zond

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Zond

(zɒnd)

(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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Also absent are the crucial launch failures in the Zond program, culminating in the last-minute cancellation of a single-cosmonaut trip around the Moon in 1968 that would have stolen much of Apollo's thunder.

Cosmonautics: A Colorful History

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