TMK

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TMK-MAVR orbiting Venus

'TMK' was the designation of a Soviet Union space exploration project to send a manned flight to Mars and Venus (TMK-MAVR design) without landing. The TMK spacecraft was due to launched in 1971 and make a three year long flight including a Mars fly-by at which time probes would have been dropped.
The TMK project was planned as an answer from the Soviet Union to the United States manned moon landings. The project was never completed because the required N1 rocket never flew successfully.

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See also


TMK (disambiguation).

External links



Anatoly Zak's TMK page

TMK page on astronautix

TMK-MAVR page on astronautix

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