klaes@wrksys.dec.com (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283) (07/22/89)
Someone recently mentioned about several unmanned Soviet ZOND
probes actually landing on Earth's Moon. This is incorrect: Of
the ZOND probes sent on lunar missions between 1965 and 1970
(ZOND 3-8), none of them landed on the lunar surface, though most
of them did orbit the Moon. It is generally believed that these
ZOND probes were tests for a manned SOYUZ mission to orbit and/or
land on the Moon. Such plans did not come to pass.
Larry Klaes klaes@renoir.dec.com
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