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re: So-called "moon landing"
Posted on 2/20/24 at 12:51 pm to saintsfan1977
Posted on 2/20/24 at 12:51 pm to saintsfan1977
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Speaking of Russia and other countries, why haven't they sent men to the moon? For a country looking to beat us in the space race, they suddenly took our word for it that there was nothing worth investigating there?
They tried. The Soviets had an unmanned probe (Luna 15) that was in orbit around the Moon at the same time as Apollo 11. It crashed into the Moon during its descent. Unfortunately for the Soviets, they didn’t have Wernher von Braun designing their launch vehicles or a company like Grumman building their lunar module.
They eventually ran out of money and could no longer field a competitive space program. Things weren’t all peachy in the USSR during the Brezhnev era.
This post was edited on 2/20/24 at 12:53 pm
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Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:24 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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they didn’t have Wernher von Braun designing their launch vehicles or a company like Grumman building their lunar module.
In other words, our Germans were better than their Germans.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 3:16 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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Wernher von Braun
Already had plans drawn up to go to Mars. Was way ahead of his time.
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