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A comment on Loon’s final flight. Parent comment

Re:Loon’s final flight by Aperocky on Friday January 22, 2021 @10:22AM (#25872368)
The point is, how do you know your path is to the Saturn V and not the Soviet N-1? In the case of Google Moonshots, nobody even know if they're going to use a rocket.
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Re:Loon’s final flight by dTal on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:19PM (#25877017)
I'm sure the N-1 would have worked as well, if the project had been funded (in both time and money) properly. The Soviet failure to reach the moon was a project management failure, rather than the failure of a blind risk to pay off.
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