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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Soviets had no interest in going to the moon (yet) and were more focused on living in space before going outside earth's orbit. The US was waving it in public on its own

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Impressive rewriting of history.

I guess the N1 was never built, right?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Not seeing how building a rocket to compete with Saturn V means they were also racing to the moon

From the references of the wiki article on the N1 rocket

https://web.archive.org/web/20161031200800/http://www.starbase1.co.uk/pages/n1-project-history.html

Salyut and Mir prove the Soviet's focus was on manned missions in low earth orbit and not the moon, and considering nobody has gone back to the moon since they've made the right call