(
    title: "Zond",
    summary: Some("A static Gemini capsule generrator in Rust"),
    published: Some((
        year: 2022,
        month: 4,
        day: 14,
        hour: 15,
        minute: 39,
        second: 20,
    )),
    tags: [
        "software",
        "zond",
        "rust",
        "cli",
    ],
)
---
Zond (Russian: Зонд, lit. 'probe') was the name given to two distinct series of  Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970. The first series, based on the 3MV planetary probe, was intended to gather information about nearby planets. The second series of test spacecraft was intended as a precursor to remote-controlled robotic circumlunar loop flights, using a stripped-down variant of Soyuz spacecraft, consisting of the service and descent modules, but lacking the orbital module. Two tortoises and other lifeforms aboard Zond 5 were the first terrestrial organisms to travel around the Moon and return to Earth.

In this context, Zond is a static gemini capsule generator. Think static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll but for [Project Gemini](https://gemini.circumlunar.space).

## Building
```
cargo build --release
```
If desired, a release distribution can then be generated which includes Unix man pages and shell completions for bash, fish, powershell and zsh.
```sh
cargo xtask dist
```
## Usage
For full usage information, see the documents in the `doc/` subdirectory of the source repository.
