Tags: Spacecraft.
Zond 7 a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft the only truly successful test of L1 was launched towards the Moon from a mother spacecraft (69-067B) on a mission of further studies of the Moon and circumlunar space to obtain color photography of Earth and the Moon from varying distances and to flight test the spacecraft systems. Earth photos were obtained on August 9 1969.
