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That's one of the options they had for moon flight, and arguably the critical part that closed their chance to get there first. But a lot of other options, doa
by p_l 6y ago
That's one of the options they had for moon flight, and arguably the critical part that closed their chance to get there first.
But a lot of other options, doable earlier, would have been possible if there was less perfectionism applied to automated flight - that's the argument I've heard.
N.B. Currently used Soyuz spacecraft (not the carrier rocket) is derived from the moon program capsule.
- avmich 6y agoSpace booster stage flying on Proton and Zenith, Blok D, is also derived from the fifth stage in the Moon expedition stack. Its engine is also the predecessor of the main engine of Buran. Lunar spacecraft technology helped with later creation of space probes, like Vega, and flying today space booster Fregat.