NEW SOVIET MOON BID?
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MOSCOW, July 3.
i Informed Communist i sources in Moscow say that the Soviet Union plans to I launch an unmanned space‘craft on Thursday of next week in an attempt to scoop up a sample of the moon’s soil and return it to earth. If successful, the experiment, beating the American Apollo 11 mission by six days, would inevitably steal some of the propaganda thunder from the United States. The sources, who have contacts inside the Soviet space programme, added that this would be Russia’s third attempt at the complex experiment The first blew up on the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in early April, and the second exploded in! flight on June 14 when its second stage ignited. Neither attempt was announced by the Soviet authorities; the reports were unofficial and confirmation could not be obtained, the sources say.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32031, 4 July 1969, Page 11
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