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Soviet Moon Race. Soviet Moon Race. Covered in secrecy for more than 30
years, details about the Soviet Moon program have become ...
... During the piloted programs of the Moon race, the pressure of competition caused
Soviet leaders to order a number of space spectaculars as much for their ...
... only became more heated during the Space Race with all ... the United States as well
with the Soviet Union being the first to reach and photograph the moon. ...
... By reaching the moon first, the United States won the space race and this gave great
attention to the US space program. Soviet and US leaders knew that being ...
... org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html Since the United States reached the moon first,
it was made clear to everyone that they had won the space race which, in ...
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Soviet Moon Race.
Covered in secrecy for more than 30 years, details about the Soviet Moon program have become available for the Western public only after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The program to send a Soviet man to the Moon was a failure despite billions of rubles expended and tens of thousands engineers involved. Consequently, in 1972 the Soviet government ordered the destruction of all remaining components. How could a country that launched the Earth’s first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, and send a first man, Youri Gagarin, in space in 1961, loose the Moon race? Most experts agree that under financing, lack of government priority, mismanagement and technical backwardness determined the projects’ negative outcome.
First, with the purge of Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, the Soviet manned space program lost its major proponent. Khrushchev, both the First Secretary of the CPSU and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, was the major force behind the Soviet manned space program. He personally oversaw the program and assigned resources and personnel needed. After his forced retirement, no one of the Soviet leaders was personally interested in the manned space exploration. As a result, only 35% of necessary funds, material and personnel were allocated. Moreover, in 1965 the tragic death of Sergey Korolev, the chief designer of the Soviet space program, left the program without a leader. Only Korolev, charismatic man and both brilliant manager and engineer, could bring together hundreds of research laboratories from different industries to work together. Thus, in 1965 the Soviet moon program lost not only its support in the government, but also its general manager.
Second, the program to send a Soviet man on the Moon was mismanaged. After Korolev’s death, Vasili Mishin, Korolev’s first deputy, was put in charge of the project. Although he had been Korolev’s deputy for more than 10 years and was involved in all...
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