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Posted on May 4, 2016

Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric  leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380 mm of Mercury.  With the drop in cabin pressure all the animal test subjects died.  It would have killed any Cosmonaut not wearing a spacesuit.

3-Zond 6 Double-dip reentry

2-Zond 6 Mission Profile

1-Proton-K with 7K-L1