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Re:Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later by maratd on Thursday April 26, 2012 @09:09AM (#3893702)
> I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists.

I think you mean fear and sheer terror.

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Re:Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later by arethuza on Thursday April 26, 2012 @09:33AM (#3893781)
I'm not sure if failure of a space probe would have been quite as disastrous for team members as it probably would have been under Stalin. For example, after the first Soviet atomic test the rule for rewards was that anyone who would have been shot if it had failed received a car.
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