Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later
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Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later
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#2The offical LRO announcement from March: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/539-Mare-C...
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#3 the spacecraft had tipped over as a result of its landing
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#4What ! Russia landed a probe on the moon during Armstrong's moonwalk!
Incredible. The moon, or Times Square? Who could tell.
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#5What ! Russia landed a probe on the moon during Armstrong's moonwalk! Incredible. The moon, or Times Square? Who could tell.
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#6Fascinating chap Sergei Korolev, denounced to the NKVD by colleagues over what sounds like office politics, tortured and sent to the Gulag for 10 years (including the awful Kolyma gold mining camps, which were some of the worst) rehabilitated and goes on to become arguably the greatest ever rocket designer - with a legacy that includes the ancestors of todays most succesful launchers used by the Russians and ESA.
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#7What ! Russia landed a probe on the moon during Armstrong's moonwalk! Incredible. The moon, or Times Square? Who could tell.
Well, I guess they didn't quite land it.
Something tells me that NASA had a team devoted to watching Luna 15 as it orbited and watching out for funny business. Imagine the disaster that could have occurred if the Soviets had decided to use the probe to interfere with Apollo 11.
Of course, judging from the fates of later Luna missions, I doubt they could have pulled that off anyway.
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#8the spacecraft had tipped over as a result of its landing I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists.
Yeah though not as much as that of the Mars Climate Orbiter team who's mission failed due to using imperial rather than metric units in a navigation program.
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#9the spacecraft had tipped over as a result of its landing I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists.
> I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists.
I think you mean fear and sheer terror.
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#10the spacecraft had tipped over as a result of its landing I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists.
> I can only imagine the frustration of the engineers and scientists. I think you mean fear and sheer terror.
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.