Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $66,297
81%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 81%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: anatolyzak

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Why Didn't the Soviets Ever Make It to the Moon?

    07/22/2019 8:22:49 AM PDT · by C19fan · 39 replies
    Popular Mechaincs ^ | July 22, 2019 | Anatoly Zak
    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.