Cancelled Spaceflights

L1-2

USSR

Planning data

Launch date (planned):  1969

Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  Bykovsky  Valeri Fyodorovich  Commander
2  Rukavishnikov  Nikolai Nikolayevich  Flight Engineer

Backup Crew

No.   Surname Given names Position
1  Klimuk  Pyotr Iliyich  Commander
2  ?    Flight Engineer

Mission objectives

Planned as the second Soviet circumlunar flight. The program was eventually cancelled (somewhere in 1969) after the successful Apollo 8 mission, and the crews training for L1 were transferred to L3.

Graphics

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Last update on June 19, 2019.

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