Space Rocket History #159 – Zond 6
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English - January 04, 2020 20:27 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsScience History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Space Rocket History #158 – Soyuz 2 and 3
Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380 mm of Mercury. With the drop in cabin pressure all the animal test subjects died. It would have killed any Cosmonaut not wearing a spacesuit.