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Technology turns out to be inferior, when quality control is superseded by political agenda. It should be quite obvious.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
> The failure of the N1 program was a leadership issue, period.
Surely leadership failure is a key factor, but there was also an economical one. Space race was very expensive.
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Technology turns out to be inferior, when quality control is superseded by political agenda. It should be quite obvious.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
> The failure of the N1 program was a leadership issue, period.
Surely leadership failure is a key factor, but there was also an economical one. Space race was very expensive.