TsKBEM was given a completely new structure as a result of the findings of the expert commissions on the disasters for the previous year, Mishin remained as the Chief Designer for the organisation, but each programme now had its own chief designer:

• N1: Boris Dorofeyev
• 8K98P solid propellant ICBM: Igor Sadovskiy
• N1 payloads: Vladimir Brorov [check]
• Soyuz 7K-TM, or Soyuz M, for Soyuz-Apollo: Konstantin Bushuyev
• Soyuz 7K-T: Yuri Semenov
• Soyuz 7K-S or Soyuz VI: Yevgeni Shabarov

This reorganisation resulted in a joke within the space industry in the Soviet Union: 'All of these chief designers at TsKBEM, in place of just one (Korolev) could only be to confuse American spies'. However there were still major projects at TsKBEM for which there were no chief designers. These included 7K-OK, MOK, Mars-75, the Nuclear Electric Propulsion work, and the Soyuz 7K-TA for Almaz. Development in particular of these numerous Soyuz variants took designers time away from the completion of the L3 lunar lander.