Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. This was the last mission in the ...
The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...
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The Soviet Tortoises That Beat Humans to the Moon
In 1968, the USSR launched Zond 5, a daring mission that sent tortoises and other organisms around the Moon and back to Earth. This video follows the troubled Zond program, the biological experiment ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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