The famous "Shard", on the Moon (4)

Un interessante frammento originale (integrato da qualche annotazione, più o meno condivisibile, della Scuola del Prof. Hoagland) di un giornale del 1965 che riportava alcune immagini "lanciate" a Terra dalla Sonda Sovietica ZOND-3.

"...Zond 3 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik Earth orbiting platform towards the Moon and Interplanetary Space.
The spacecraft was equipped with an f106 mm camera and TV system that provided automatic inflight film processing. On July 20/'65 lunar flyby occurred approx. 33 hours after launch at a closest approach of 9200 Km 25 pictures of very good quality were taken of the Lunar Far-Side from distances of 11.570 to 9.960 Km over a period of 68 minutes.
The photos covered about 19.000.000 square/km of the lunar surface. Photo transmissions by facsimile were returned to Earth from a distance of about 2,2 MKM and were retransmitted from a distance of 31,5 MKM (some signals still being transmitted from the distance of the orbit of Mars), thus proving the ability of the communications system. After the lunar flyby, Zond 3 continued space exploration in a heliocentric orbit..."