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Orbital launch vehicle. Year: 1962. Other Family: R-7. Country: Russia. Status: Study 1962. Article Number: 8K78L. The Molniya 8K78L was designed by Korolev's design bureau for launching a manned spacecraft on a flyby of the Moon and return to earth. To achieve this it would have used Lox/LH2 engines in the third and fourth stages. Preliminary design was completed on 8 July 1962, but such technology was years away in the Soviet Union and the project was not pursued further. Manufacturer: Korolev. Payload: 5,000 kg (11,000 lb). to a: translunar trajectory.
Molniya 8K78L Chronology 1962 July 8 - Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78L. - Molniya 8K78L preliminary design completed Nation: USSR. The Molniya 8K78L was designed by Korolev's design bureau for launching a manned spacecraft on a flyby of the Moon and return to earth. To achieve this it would have used Lox/LH2 engines in the third and fourth stages. Such technology was years away in the Soviet Union and the project was not pursued further.
Bibliography and Further Reading - Semenov, Yuri P Editor, Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya 'Energia' imeni S P Koroleva, Moscow, Russia, 1996. Russian in-house history of the Energia Corporation and its predecessors. Unprecedented detail, photographs, designations, and drawings, on the products of Korolev's OKB.
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