Either way, should the crisis have escalated, there would have been more than enough potential for MAD on both sides.
Apart from that, the you still gotta admit that it's pretty impressive what the soviet scientists managed to do, given the inferiority of their economic and political system.
During the '62 Cuban Missile Crisis the US had several hundred RELIABLE and ACCURATE ICBM's ready to launch, the Russians had only FOUR liquid fueled ICBM's, which required 24 hours to prepare had they decided to launch, and they would have either blown up or missed their target anyway if they did launch them.
You know that the goal of the Russian space program actually was to create reliable IBCMs to carry atomic bombs, right?
Civil spaceflight always was kind of an unloved stepchild of the political leadership - plus, the leader of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev, died in 1966.
Under those circumstances, it's actually astonishing they managed to do those feats nevertheless.
N1 looked so awful., as I'd it was designed to kill
IASOU2005 1 month ago
@Blahblobify
Well, gotta thank those German scientists, eh? ;)
Either way, should the crisis have escalated, there would have been more than enough potential for MAD on both sides.
Apart from that, the you still gotta admit that it's pretty impressive what the soviet scientists managed to do, given the inferiority of their economic and political system.
AustrianChaos 1 month ago
@AustrianChaos
Yes I know that and they lost that race too.
During the '62 Cuban Missile Crisis the US had several hundred RELIABLE and ACCURATE ICBM's ready to launch, the Russians had only FOUR liquid fueled ICBM's, which required 24 hours to prepare had they decided to launch, and they would have either blown up or missed their target anyway if they did launch them.
Blahblobify 1 month ago
@Blahblobify
You know that the goal of the Russian space program actually was to create reliable IBCMs to carry atomic bombs, right?
Civil spaceflight always was kind of an unloved stepchild of the political leadership - plus, the leader of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev, died in 1966.
Under those circumstances, it's actually astonishing they managed to do those feats nevertheless.
AustrianChaos 1 month ago
@jawajawa350
LOL most of those "firsts" was repeating the same shit...we put a dog in space!!! now a man!!! Now a woman!!!!
Claim all the firsts for them you want, they lost the race to the moon. Worse than that, 42 years later they have yet to cross the finish line.
Blahblobify 2 months ago
@jawajawa350 , You forgot to mention landing a probe on Venus.
hdufort 5 months ago
theres was no shit on space stations they made Salyut-1 to Salyut-7
and Mir space station.
stellaruniversexmpls 6 months ago
@jawajawa350 And the first country to collapse under the weight of its' own failed philosophy.
MGR1900 7 months ago
Star Trek is real !
fensterchunster 8 months ago
That dead soyuz crew wuz not dead. they wuz bois who liked hairy men giving them mouth 2 mouth. aight! peace out
BigRIJoe 9 months ago