https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iuo3J8L9b8
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They were slowly going broke due to their central control economy.
Arguement in the politburo over which dissident(s) to use as ballast on the rocket. Never solved that one.
They ran out of Rubles.
They did orbit a Zond around the Moon that could have had a crew. Once they lost that race, they started claiming they were never in the race and started working on their space station.
More general info on Zond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_program
Because our Nazis were better than their Nazis.
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I’ve lately been reading about how great and diverse their space program was with all the females they included.
Yes, they are still there on the moon with their dog they brought along with them.... : )
There’s old rumors they did a manned landing first, but kept it under wraps until a successful return, which didn’t happen.
IF they could’ve gotten the N-1 to work, and IF they also had a million other things go right (which they did for Apollos 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17), the Soviets MIGHT have made it to the Moon. But, (Chief Designer) Korolev believed in larger numbers of smaller engines rather than fewer big engines. With the Saturn V, that’s what worked. IF they’d developed an equivalent of the F-1 engine, they might have had greater success.
But, like they say...’if wishes were horses’.
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universal wage and price controls + elimination of profits and private property + central planning + government monopoly + bureaucratic management + force = anarchy of production + economic chaos + inefficiency and waste
Everything to lose; nothing to gain.
Rocket go “BOOM!”
I’ll bet that after the first disaster, some Soviet scientist said the equivalent of “it’ll buff right out.”
Yes. That was mainly because we got the best Krauts.
Meanwhile in 2019 South Korea is 10 times the country that Russia is.
There was an unmanned Soviet lunar lander (Luna 15) in orbit around the moon when Apollo 11 arrived. Their goal was to collect moon soil samples (and other scientific data) and bring it back to earth, then brag that Sovietski automation was SO SUPERIOR that they could do with robots what the Americans could only do by putting human lives at risk.
It even was scheduled to land before Apollo 11 (so they could claim they’d got there first) but while in lunar orbit they found that their altitude sensor — which was supposed to be in control of the soft landing — produced wildly fluctuating readings, which meant the landing probably wouldn’t be very soft.
They tried to find a work-around but ran out of time when Apollo landed first at 20:17:40 UTC on 20 July. After that they conceded defeat and commanded it to proceed with the automated landing and it crashed in Mare Crisium, about 740 miles from Tranquility Base at 15:51 UTC on 21 July. Two hours and three minutes later, Armstrong and Aldrin left the moon for rendezvous with Collins and the trip home.
Science fiction...