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Zond 8 a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned Moon-flyby spacecraft was launched from an Earth orbiting platform Tyazheliy Sputnik (70-088B) towards the Moon. The announced objectives of Zond 8 were investigations of the Moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems and units. The spacecraft obtained photographs of Earth on 21 October from a distance of 64480 km. The spacecraft transmitted flight images of Earth for three days.
