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It's offered to your attention very rare and unique limited edition book - the official records file about Soviet interplanetary space mission of the automatic probe Zond-5, what first in the world successfully circled the Moon and returned to Earth. The file contains:
general mission data,
mission program,
weighing, launch, trajectory and splash-down statements,
report about Zond-5 structure,
telemetry,
brief description of command-measuring post,
real photo illustrations.
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Zond-5, a formal member of the Soviet Zond program and unmanned version of Soyuz 7K-L1 manned moon-flyby spacecraft, was launched by a Proton-K carrier rocket with a Blok D upper stage to conduct scientific studies during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth. Zond-5 became the first spacecraft to circle the Moon and return to land on Earth. On September 18, 1968, the spacecraft flew around the Moon. The closest distance was 1,950 km. High quality photographs of the Earth were taken at a distance of 90,000 km. A biological payload of two Russian tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter was included in the flight. September 22, 1968, the reentry capsule entered the Earth's atmosphere but could not perform a skip reentry due to failure of the guidance system. The capsule splashed down in the Indian Ocean and was successfully recovered by the USSR recovery vessels Borovichy and Vasiliy Golovin. The biological payload was intact, proving that it was possible to survive a lunar flyby and safely return to Earth. It was announced that the tortoises had lost about 10% of their body weight but remained active and showed no loss of appetite. This spacecraft was planned as a precursor to a manned lunar spacecraft. The Zond-5 return capsule is on display at the RKK Energia museum, in Russia.
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Here are some facts what may be interesting to know:
Such files have been created to officially register the records achieved during the space flights.
The number of such files is very limited, about several tens copies for each space flight.
These files have been presented to officials, important international guests and space museums for permanent display.
Each text page with the records in the file is hand-signed by appropriate specialist.
There are the real photos manually glued on the pages.
All the files are printed on very high quality solid paper with the leather cover and golden letters on it!
Multilingual records files have been created for some highly significant and international missions.
The records files for piloted missions contain hand-signed reports of all the crew members.
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Language - Russian.
Format - A4.
Number of pages - 14.
Condition - perfect.
 Exclusive Soviet piece-production book with goldish letters on leather hardcover.
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