Bach Under The Stars

Thursday 22 November 2012

What if the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the Moon?




  • List of long-duration crews on space station  This is pretty obvious that soviets have conquer in mind.
  • There was no soviet space agency. There was at least two space programs competing with each other.
  • This is obvious, soviet space program needed to be shaped differently. First and foremost - Chief Designer was dead. Without Von Braun there would be no moon landing, either.
  • Scientific part of Apollo program was almost completely worthless and absolutely neglected. Only geologist (only scientist?) was abroad Apollo 17, in last mission. All the rest was space cowboys. You could scoop moon rock using robots for fraction of the costs. I sincerely don't believe that average American was more inspired for scientific research by Apollo program then average Egyptian goat herder by Pyramids.
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