Zond 8 (Soyuz 7K-L1), the final unmanned circumlunar flight of the Soviet Zond program, launched on a Proton-K/D from Baikonur on a free-return lunar trajectory as a precursor test for crewed circumlunar missions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 5.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 38 Proton / UR-500 K/D flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1970, 19:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton / UR-500 K/D
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1970-088
- Launches in 1970
- 96th of 124
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