ARTEMIS 2
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Planetary Science
State: Partial failure
Place: Moon
Operator: Lavochkin
Instruments: 1) cosmic ray and micrometeoroid detectors, 2) photography equipment, 3) biological payload,
Date
Start:
Duration: 7 days
Mission Ending
Disposal: Crash landed
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K/11S824
Kind: Lavochkin
Manufacturer: NPO Energia Company[citation needed]
Mass: 5,375 kg (11,850 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 81/26
Flyby
1º Flyby: Moon
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
Region: 70 km NE of Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, USSR
Date: 17 November 1968 (1968-11-17) 14:10 UT
Zond 6, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned Moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit. The spacecraft, which carried scientific probes including cosmic ray and micrometeoroid detectors, photography equipment, and a biological payload (flies, bacteria and turtles), was a precursor to a manned circumlunar flight which the Soviets hoped could occur in December 1968, beating the American Apollo 8. However, after rounding the Moon, Zond 6 crashed on its return to Earth due to a parachute failure.
