Zond 5 (7K-L1 No.9), a Soviet circumlunar Soyuz-derived test craft launched on a Proton-K/Blok D from Baikonur; it carried two tortoises and other biota on the first free-return around the Moon and recovered them after Indian Ocean splashdown on 21 September 1968.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 14 September 1968, 21:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1968-076
- Launches in 1968
- 83rd of 128
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