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by Florin_Andrei
3881 days ago
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Well, that's in the Confirmed Hoaxes section of that page. :) The N1 rocket (USSR's workhorse for their Lunar space program in the '60s) never worked well. Chief Engineer Korolev (the Russian counterpart to Wernher von Braun) dying in the mid-60s certainly didn't help. The project suffered from "financial malnutrition" for a long time, due to political infighting within the top levels of the Communist Party. The N1 test launches were all rushed, improvised affairs that failed, sometimes spectacularly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear... The way the project operated was, basically, "we don't have enough money to run horizontal burn tests properly, so we'll do it live, with a full-scale vertical launch". The results were what you would expect. Main point is, the Russians didn't have a properly working vehicle in the '60s to reach Moon orbit. They were starting to figure out the issues with the N1 towards the end of the decade, but then Armstrong set foot on Luna and the rest is history. The N1 was cancelled quietly in the mid-70s. |
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