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mission
Close ✕Zond 5
Carried tortoises, seeds and flies around the Moon and back to Earth — the first living things to travel to the Moon and return.
No recorded place · 1968-09-15 – 1968-09-18
Lunar mission
Operated bySoviet lunar programme (OKB-1 / Lavochkin) · Soviet Union
ClassFlyby · robotic
Outcomesuccess
Launched1968-09-15
Arrived1968-09-18
PositionThis mission did not reach the surface. It has no position because it never had one.
Connections
- operated by Soviet lunar programme (OKB-1 / Lavochkin) — Zond 5 was flown by Soviet lunar programme (OKB-1 / Lavochkin).
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates