Zond 7
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The Zond 7 spacecraft, part of the Soviet Zond program, was launched towards the Moon on a Proton-K D rocket on August 7, 1969. Its mission was to support studies of the Moon and circumlunar space, to
Zond 7 orbit, photographs of the Earth and the Moon on a USSR miniature sheet, 1969
A photograph of the Earth taken by Zond 7 on a postage stamp of the USSR in 1969
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey
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Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who orbited the Moon a record 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission.
Zond 7
…Zond 6, turtles on a circumlunar mission in November 1968 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, five mice who orbited the Moon a record 75 times on the December 1972 Apollo 17 mission List of missions to the Moon…
Five mice and three astronauts traveled toward the Moon and returned to Earth in Apollo 17's Command Module America, now on display at Space Center Houston.
NASA astronaut Ronald Evans and the mice orbited the Moon together for over six days in 1972.
The night launch of Apollo 17, December 7, 1972
The Apollo 17 space capsule about to splash down in the south Pacific Ocean