Status
Success
Zond 7
Launch Time
Thu Aug 07, 1969 23:48 UTC
Thu Aug 07, 1969 23:48 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Zond 7
The Zond-7 spacecraft carries four turtles, algae, bacteria and seeds, as well as a manikin equipped with several sensors.
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: 5,979.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection
Location
Site 81/23, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
1969
78th orbital launch attempt
Proton-K
16th mission
7th mission of 1969
8th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission