50 years ago, ie. On 30 November, 1964, Russia launched a multistage spacecraft “ Zond
Two “ towards Mars. This was in reply to the American (NASA)
Mariner-5 (the Spacecraft to Mars) . The Space-ship carried an automatic
station for recording and transmitting information back to earth.
This was the second attempt by Russia to launch a spacecraft
to Mars, after its first attempt – Mars I
– was launched on Nov 1, 1962.
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