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From: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM (-for inetd server command)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: "Beyond the Energia crisis"
Keywords: Soviet/American shuttle comparison
Message-ID: <10654@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 19:07:37 GMT
References: <880@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kendalla@pooter.UUCP (Kendall Auel)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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In article <880@cernvax.UUCP> jon@cernvax.UUCP (jon) writes:
>.....
>He starts with a brief history of the Soviet space program.  One  thing  I
>found curious was claim about the demise of the Soviet moon project.
>
>  "The superbooster designed to put a Russian on  the  Moon  first  didn't
>   work.  A  damage-limitation  exercise was started.  They didn't want to
>   go to the Moon they said.  What they intended to do along was to  build
>   space stations.  Curiously the West believed them."
>
>This is the first time I have heard that  the  Russian  ever  had  serious
>plans to land a man on the moon.  Is it true?

I recall reading in "Chariots for Apollo" (the NASA history of the
Moon program) that the Soviets soft-landed a probe on the Moon.
It scooped up some soil, and successfully returned it to Earth!
This all happened just a year or so before the U.S. manned Moon
landing.  Anyone else know more about this?

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