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§ Historical recordZond 6 spacecraft/return capsule
Circumlunar flight; return capsule depressurized/hard-landed but photographs were recovered.
- Era
- A (1959-1976)
- Parent mission
- Zond 6
- Role
- circumlunar flyby and return spacecraft
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Nation
- USSR
- Launched (UTC)
- 1968-11-10
- Reached Moon (UTC)
- 1968-11-14
- Event type
- flyby/sample-return
- Outcome
- partial
- Site
- Flyby; circumlunar trajectory
- Left on surface
- none
- Returned material
- return capsule/film recovered on Earth
- Current status
- returned/crashed on Earth
- Operational status (derived)
- inactive
- Source grade
- primary
- Review note
- review:medium
Primary source