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Apr 16, 2024 · Four days into the mission, the tortoises and their travel companions circled the moon. Just as the Soviets intended, they became the first living things ever to do so. Zond 5 looped around the moon's far side took some wonderful photographs.
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Sep 18, 2018 · Fifty years ago today, on September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft circled the moon, ferrying the first living creatures known to have orbited another world. On board were two Russian steppe tortoises along with some worms, flies and seeds.
Sep 18, 2018 · Two Russian steppe tortoises flew around the Moon just months before Apollo 8. The shelled cosmonauts returned safely to Earth, proving life could survive the voyage.
Aug 29, 2018 · Many animals such as monkeys, dogs and cats went up, but the very first travelers to the moon were reptiles — or to be more specific, Russian Steppe tortoises. Russian tortoise. On September 14, 1968 the Soviet Union launched Zond 5, occupied by not only two Russian Steppe tortoises but insects, mealworms, seeds and plants, and certain types ...
In September 1968 it became the first spaceship to travel to and circle the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory, the first Moon mission to include animals, and the first to return safely to Earth. Zond 5 carried the first terrestrial organisms to the vicinity of the Moon, including two Russian tortoises , fruit fly eggs, and plants. [ 5 ]
Sep 8, 2024 · Meet the first animals who circled the moon – two Horsfield’s Tortoises. While the spotlight of space exploration often shines on gleaming rockets and the exploits of astronauts, a quieter tale deserves telling.
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18 September 1968. A pair of tortoises were the first animals to circle the Moon, in a Soviet spacecraft in 1968. The Zond 5 spacecraft on which they were stowed splashed down in the Indian Ocean.
