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• orbital-decay 7y ago
  > The tankette, which would weigh not more than a few hundred pounds and would be radio controlled from the earth, would explore the surface of the moon and report its findings back to earth. Information so obtained would make possible the next stage-the mastery of the Moon by man in the next 5 to 10 years. Unlike Khlebtsevich, most people behind the manned Soviet space program weren't so fond of the Moon back in 50s, though. Korolyov, Mishin etc believed that a manned Moon mission would be a mistake. They bet on the Venus or Mars flyby mission as the first step in the Solar System exploration, because the deep space missions clearly needed the ability to build large spaceships in orbit, and single launch missions would have taught them very little. In fact, N-1 was originally planned and optimized for assembling a LEO manned space station/spaceship (MPK/TMK) to be sent to Venus. AFAIK it was the JFK speech that made Politburo switch the target, at the worst time possible.