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From: klaes@wrksys.dec.com (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: The Soviet ZOND lunar probes.
Message-ID: <8907212208.AA26167@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 21 Jul 89 20:37:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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        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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