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The Soviet Union (Russia) conducted six different unmanned lunar exploration programs between 1958 and 1973. Each of those programs had successful missions along with several failures. Those unmanned explorations of the moon have been described in the previous two chapters of this book.
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Lund, T. (2018). Russian Manned Circumlunar Flight. In: Early Exploration of the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02071-2_13
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