Status
Success
Zond 6
Launch Time
Sun Nov 10, 1968 19:11 UTC
Sun Nov 10, 1968 19:11 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Zond 6
Zond-6's scientific payload consists of a radiation detector, a micrometeorite detector and a biological container. This is the first time that a machine returning from the Moon achieves a controlled return to the atmosphere.
L1 was a Soviet spacecraft launched on Proton, designed in parallel of 7K-L1, which flew on the N-1 launcher. It was conceived to carry out crewed flybys of the Moon, like Apollo 8. This spacecraft sent the first living beings to fly over the Moon, turtles, on board Zond 5. The work made on this spacecraft will be used for the improvement of the Soyuz spacecraft.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,375.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection
Location
Site 81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
1968
109th orbital launch attempt
Proton-K
8th mission
4th mission of 1968
5th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission