[EagleUSA]

Ivan has never gotten over the fact that their technology has never been good enough to make the levels of quality needed to make predictable, MANNED moon landings. In the late sixties, I was one of the MANY engineers and scientists that made APOLLO happen. It was very real. All of it. And we did not have to lie about any of it or keep it hidden because of probable failures that Ivan has always lived with.

Sour grapes, Ivan.

[Carriage Hill]

I'm amazed at all the effort and expense the commies/socialists/leftists went to just to make everyone think it was a hoax. Idiots.

[bert]

Sour grapes?

It can be argued that to get the money to support a space program, some effort needs to be made to arouse public sentiment. Whipping the USA is a way to raise that sentiment

[jmacusa]

I was just watching a video about the Kursk sub disaster. The Russians always seem hell bent on doing the very opposite when it comes to technology and safety standards and procedures common in the West. Apparently they used hydrogen peroxide as a propellant in their torpedoes which can be unstable and problematic as a fuel. The consensus about the disaster is that somehow an electrical spark or ground in the torpedo tube caused the initial explosion. A build up of toxic gases and other leaking fuel caused a more massive secondary explosion which doomed the crew. I remember that story. Those poor Russian kids were trapped in a rear compartment for days, slowly suffocating to death. In the Chernobyl nuke accident the Russians were using a graphite reactor, something considered too unstable and dangerous for use in the West. Stupid Russians ended up irradiating half the planet.