Zond 6 (7K-L1 No.12), an uncrewed Soviet circumlunar free-return test of the L1/Zond spacecraft with turtles, flies, and bacteria plus cameras. Proton-K/Blok D from Baikonur Site 81/23 lofted it on 10 November 1968; reentry depressurization and hard landing killed the biological payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 10 November 1968, 19:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1968-101
- Launches in 1968
- 109th of 128
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