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Zond 1, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was the second Soviet research spacecraft to successfully reach position Venus. However, like the previous "success," the Venera 1, communications from the satellite failed before it reached Venus.

The spacecraft, a Venera 3MV-1, was launched on April 4, 1964 from Tyuratam, communications failed by May 14, and it achieved orbit around the sun 100,000km from Venus on July 14 of that year.

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Zond programThe Zond program was a series of Soviet unmanned space missions from 1964 to 1970 to test spacecraft intended for manned flights around the moon. While the lunar mission was the mission's primary goal from 1968 on, the first three missions of the program.	Zond 3Zond 3 a member of the Soviet Zond program, was the first Zond spacecraft to successfully complete its mission (a Lunar flyby) and took a number of amazing photographs for its time, though it is believed that it was initially intended to fly by Mars with	Zond 5Zond 5 a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program, was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (68-076B) in Earth parking orbit to make scientific studies during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth. On September 18, 1968, the spacecraft flew around the Moon.
Zond 6Zond 6 a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program, 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, photogra	Zond 7Zond 7 a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program and the only truly successful test of the Soyuz 7K-L1, was launched towards the Moon from a mother spacecraft (69-067B) on a mission of further studies of the Moon and circulmunar space, to obtain color p	Zond 8Zond 8 a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program, was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik (70-088B), towards the Moon. The announced objectives were investigations of the moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems
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