[FPSPACE] Luna or Lunik?

[Mgr. CSc. Antonín Vítek]

Official names of all those Soviet Moon probes were of course "Luna",  cf. eg. "Uspekhi SSSR v issledovanii kosmicheskogo prostranstva: Pervoe kosmicheskoe desyatiletie 1957-1967" (Successes of USSR in outer space research : The first cosmic decade 1957-1967), Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Inst. istorii yestestvoznaniya i tekhniki. Moskva : Izd. Nauka, 1968. pp. 250--268.

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< Od: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
< Předmět: [FPSPACE] Luna or Lunik?
< Datum: 09.4.2006 19:51:33
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< David S. F. Portree's well-written article on Gagarin et al had me 
< wondering:
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< Did the Soviets really ever call the Luna probes Luniks, or was that a
< Western convention based on Sputnik?  I know as a derisive joke they
< called Sputnik 2 Muttnik, thus my wondering.
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< Thanks,
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< Larry
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