Zond 7, 1969

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Zond 7, 1969
Zond 7, 1969

Zond 7
Soviet press photo
August 8-9, 1969

Earth from ca. 70,000 kilometers.

Zond 7 was launched towards the moon from a mother spacecraft (69-067B) on a mission of further studies of the moon and circulmunar space, to obtain color photography of the earth and the moon from varying distances, and to flight test the spacecraft systems. Earth photos were obtained on August 9, 1969. On August 11, 1969, the spacecraft flew past the moon at a distance of 1984.6 km and conducted two picture taking sessions. Zond 7 reentered the earth's atmosphere on August 14, 1969, and achieved a soft landing in a preset region south of Kustanai.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1969...

For comparison, see Soviet Moon Images archive:
mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm
mentallandscape.com/C_Zond07_6.jpg


Vintage chromogenic print, 12.7 x 17.1 cm, with Novosti stamp and press caption affixed on verso. From the collection of Piet Smolders, Dutch space journalist and expert on Russian space program.

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