One giant leap for tortoise-kind

Oh my the irony.

The Zond mission series is notable because it's the first time the Soviets tried an electronic digital computer on their spacecraft.

> In August 1964, trying to catch up with the Apollo program, the Soviet Union launched its own lunar landing project. A new spacecraft code named 7K-L1 (later publicly named Zond) was designed, and its control system included, for the first time in a Soviet spacecraft, an onboard electronic digital computer, the Argon-11S. The design and construction of the Argon-11S was completed in 1968 by the Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Machinery (NIEM) in Moscow.

- http://web.mit.edu/slava/space/introduction.htm

As they didn't have the ability to produce integrated circuits, they used something called a "hybrid IC" that is kinda like a shrink-wrapped PCB with extra steps,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_integrated_circuit

These missions were also responsible for other firsts, like the first test of a Pulsed Plasma Thruster. And the Zond 2 & 3 were the first Solar-Electric Propulsion missions ever flown in space, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_plasma_thruster

Today, this is all I wanted to know. The hoax part is good too.