Posted on March 16, 2016
The first attempt for a Zond 4 follow-up launched on April 22. It failed when the Launch Escape System sent an erroneous abort command at T+260 seconds and shut down the Proton booster’s second stage. The escape rocket fired and pulled the descent m...
3-Scientist observing lunar tort
2-Zond-5 has delivered two tortoises back to the Earth
1-Zond 5 Makes Lunar Round-Trip
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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 kille...
3-Zond 6 Double-dip reentry
2-Zond 6 Mission Profile
1-Proton-K with 7K-L1
Tagged:100k Star Tracker, 7k L1, 7k Ok, Aldrin, Apollo 8, Armstrong, Bacteria, Baikinor, Block D, Bombay, Borovichy, Bushuyev, Cernan, Chelomey, Circumlunar, Cosomodrome, Crimea, Design Bureau 1, Kazakhstan, Kennedy, Kremlin, Meal Worms, Michoud, Mississippi Test Facilit, N1, N1 L3, Okb 1, Parachute, Pratt Whitney, Proton, Rkk Energiya Museum, Rocketdyne, Russian Academy Of Sciences, Saturn V, Schmitt, Sirius, Soviet Union, Soyuz, Stennis, Tortoise, Tskbem, Tyura Tam, Ur 500k, Uss Mcmorris, Ussr, Vasiliy Golovin, Wind Flies, Yuri Gagarin, Zond, Zond 4, Zond 5, Zond 7, Zond 8