> that engineers were the most pragmatic I've ever seen, and the politicians were just...fucking idiots. The engineers would have big problems if they spaceshi

> that engineers were the most pragmatic I've ever seen, and the politicians were just...fucking idiots. The engineers would have big problems if they spaceship doesn't work. The politicians are not idiots, its simply that they don't have the same goals as the engineers so the politicians seem like idiots to engineers. > Had he not died in 1966, I suspect the Soviets would have beat the US to putting a man on the moon. This is an false take. Many people have looked at this and it simply doesn't hold up. The resources they were investing was not big enough and having korolev couldn't have solved all the many problems they would have still faced. They had some great engine technology but its a long way from there to the moon.