Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (2018)

Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by izacus on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:27PM (#26171265)

No, the Sovient program was doomed because the military lost any interest in funding Korolev's trips to Moon after they got what they wanted from the program - a fully working ICBM capable of reaching USA.

After that the funding was heavily curtailed and redirected to other near-military projects like spy satellites.

The fact that the program itself was ruinously expensive for USSR (which was still less developed than US) and was burning precious R&D resources was also not insignificant.

Korolev by James Harford is a rather readable insight into what was going on inside the Soviet space program: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213301.Korolev

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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by nickff on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:33PM (#26172088)

I think there's a great argument to be made for Kruschev's downfall being the 'but for' cause of the abandonment of the program, but Korolev and technologies were the 'sine qua nons' of a moonshot.

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