On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:43:27 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

(Zonds 1-3 were early-60s planetary probes, unrelated to the circumlunar
Soyuz variant; for some reason, the Soviets reused the name.)

....Based on their history of using Cosmos as a "catch-all" for
anything they shot up that they wanted to conbefuddle the world into
thinking it's something that it's not, giving the Lunar-variant Soyuz
a "Zond" designator would be be in line with their usual
disinformation policies at the time.'Twould not surprise me in the
slightest that if they'd managed to pull off a manned mission, they'd
have given it a completely different program name altogether.

....On a side note, Henry - did you get that e-mail I sent back to you
yet?

OM
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