Abstract
In the course of the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union built the equipment it required for manned lunar exploration. This comprised the Proton rocket, to fly spacecraft around the moon, and the N-1 rocket, designed to land cosmonauts on the moon. The Soviet Union built the spacecraft necessary to circle and land on the moon: the Zond to pass round the moon and return to Earth, the LK lunar lander and the LOK lunar orbiter. And, finally, the Soviet Union trained a squad of cosmonauts to fly there and land there. Each is described in turn.
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(2007). The first cosmonauts to the moon. In: Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73976-2_5
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