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Why Didn't the Soviets Ever Make It to the Moon?
Popular Mechaincs ^
| July 22, 2019
| Anatoly Zak
Posted on 07/22/2019 8:22:49 AM PDT by C19fan
On July 3, 1969, just 17 days before Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, the USSR made its second attempt to test-fire its own moon rocket, known as N1.
No official announcement about the secret mission had ever been made, but in subsequent passes over the Soviet test range in Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, U.S. spy satellites glimpsed utter devastation at one of the two launch pads known to host the moon rocket.
The Soviet Union didn't know it at the time, but its hopes for reaching the moon also ended on that charred launch pad in 1969.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: anatolyzak; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; moon; popularmechaincs; rockets; sergeikorolev; soviet; space; spacex; themoon
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The first stage of the N1 had 30 NK-15 rocket engines. Just a crazy idea to think one could synchronize such a complicated system. Four and a half NK-15s was required to produce the same thrust as one F1 rocket the powered the Saturn Vs first stage. One can see the spectacular explosion of the 2nd launch attempt of the N1 on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iuo3J8L9b8
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:22:49 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: rktman
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:24:53 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Too busy interfering in our elections? 😆
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:28:31 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: C19fan
They were slowly going broke due to their central control economy.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:30:34 AM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: rktman
“Tovarish, we need to get Hubert Humphrey elected!”
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:30:55 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: C19fan
Arguement in the politburo over which dissident(s) to use as ballast on the rocket. Never solved that one.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:31:32 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
To: Army Air Corps
Cool pix of the veep, Aldrin, and Armstrong’s son at the launch site
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:32:57 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
To: Army Air Corps
👍. Well, he was kinda pro 2nd Amendment back in '60. LOL!
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:33:00 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
Too busy perfecting the Diverse Cosmonaut Program.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:35:21 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:37:52 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: C19fan
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:40:36 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
To: C19fan
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
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:40:46 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: C19fan
Because our Nazis were better than their Nazis.
L
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:45:05 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: C19fan
I’ve lately been reading about how great and diverse their space program was with all the females they included.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:54:09 AM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: C19fan
Yes, they are still there on the moon with their dog they brought along with them.... : )
To: C19fan
There’s old rumors they did a manned landing first, but kept it under wraps until a successful return, which didn’t happen.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:54:42 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
To: FoxInSocks
. . . and the U.S. program was just a bunch of white guys.
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posted on
07/22/2019 8:54:48 AM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: FoxInSocks
You forgot Asians and Negro. In fact it was technologically viable for the Soviets to put a man on the moon but since they failed to do it first it lost the propaganda value.
To: FoxInSocks
Their second or third “man in space” was incinerated in his capsule while cursing his fellow Rooskies for putting him in a defective device.
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posted on
07/22/2019 9:06:30 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Russians: Great mathematicians, lousy engineers.
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posted on
07/22/2019 9:26:25 AM PDT
by
bioqubit
(bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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