and a cancer had spread to his intestinal track).After that, the manned lunar program just... went nowhere.......
First "hard landing" on the Moon: Soviet Union (yes, Korolyov sent the probe)
First soft landing on the Moon (unmanned): Soviet Union (still under Korolyov)
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well, you get the picture.
Then in 1966, while the heavy launcher was being built and tested, Korolyov died (his death had nothing to do with the test, he had been sick for quite some time, and a cancer had spread to his intestinal track).
After that, the manned lunar program just... went nowhere.
Actually, the U.S.S.R was the first country to make it to the Moon first, not the U.S.A. The U.S.A was the first to make a MANNED Moon landing. The U.S.S.R. AND THE U.S.A stopped manned Moon missions partly because the U.S.A. had won the Cold War on the battleground of the Moon resoundingly. NO OTHER countries in the early 1970's were part of the landing on the Moon first race. NO manned Moon missions were canceled by other countries. What so many people who neither lived through it or haven't read enough to connect the dots is that the there was a hot flip side to the Cold War going on at the same time as the Space Race to the Moon. That hot flip side was on Earth was the undeclared Vietnam war. Do some online research on the "domino theory of Communism" and how was applied to southeast Asia and Cuba. Talk to some one who is old enough AND WHO REMEMBERS living through the Cuban missile crisis.
I just did a Google search on "Timeline manned moon missions AND Vietnam war"
First hit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landin…
Some of us remember things that haven't been put online or haven't been publicized much. The Apollo 16 astronauts on the surface of the Moon left 2 hours and 43 minutes earlier than originally scheduled because of an approaching high energy solar flare. Since many of us actually lived through those times and we are live witnesses by TV to BOTH the Space Race AND the Vietnam war, you CAN claim that we are delusional, but the odd things is, if we are ALL delusional, isn't that just a big a conspiracy for the non-believers as the SIX moon landing conspiracy?
First column of this source, written by another live witness by TV:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ILxnVot…
