This meme of the "inferior Soviet technology" needs to die in a fire. It's soothing for the fragile Western conservative ego, but it's just not true - not, at l

This meme of the "inferior Soviet technology" needs to die in a fire. It's soothing for the fragile Western conservative ego, but it's just not true - not, at least, with regards to space. The failure of the N1 program was a leadership issue, period. Just like America trailing the Russians at first was a leadership and lack of focus issue. One team kept winning, then they lost their captains and their funding. Meanwhile, the other team got great leaders and awesome sponsors and started busting their collective ass really hard around the same time - and the wheel of fortune suddenly turned. Funny how that works, isn't it? What's strange is that the true events sound a heck of a lot more "american" (work hard and reap the laurels, or slack off and be a loser) and yet you keep hearing the same bullshit all the time as to how "the Russian stuff was just inferior". It's not true. And it's not a good story to tell your kids.