What would happen if the Soviets never given up on going into space?

[JakeWIlls92]

After the failure of the N1 rocket they never thought of going to the moon again. But what if the N1 had succeeded?

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

This.

 

[fncceo]

The Space Race was ultimately doomed. It was just too expensive to be anything but a Cold War stunt.

Had The Soviets not dropped out, it would have bankrupted them. As Star Wars technology did decades later.

 

[Kilroy2]

I don't think it matter who got there first other than bragging rights. Is it a matter of how much money the country has or who has the better scientist? Now there are joint mission and some solo missions. I thing joint mission between countries is the way to go as the cost can be divided and can build cooperation between nations.

Still getting to the moon was so so and that was in 1962. It was the technology boost that is the biggest win.

The money spent to get to the moon when the real target is mars is astronomical. Yet probably 99 % of space still exist where man has not stepped foot on.

 

[Unkotare]

Did you say 1962???

???

 

[whitehall]

Since Hussein grounded the Space Shuttle the American astronauts would have had to hitch hike to the (international) Space Station.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

US Space Command says Russia tested space weapon to take down satellites

The U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) said on Thursday it has evidence that Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon in space. Russia deployed “a new object”

americanmilitarynews.com

 

[badbob85037]

After the failure of the N1 rocket they never thought of going to the moon again. But what if the N1 had succeeded?

Obama turned NASA into a Muslim out reach center So it wouldn't matter. We would still be buying rides to space from Russia.

 

[Kilroy2]

Did you say 1962???

???

No I typed 1962 which was a typo still it was a long time ago.

 

[Kilroy2]

It seems the US is accusing Russia of launching a anti satellite weapon and that they lied about it. Imagine that, who would suspect that Russians would lie.. They are going to have a meeting to discuss proper etiquette in space.

Star wars is here. I wonder if the US has any anti satellite weapons. The US , China, Russia, and India have shown that they are capable of doing it by shooting down there own satellites.

 

[Kilroy2]

After the failure of the N1 rocket they never thought of going to the moon again. But what if the N1 had succeeded?

It was a race. They lost the race and that was it. Putting the man on the moon is nothing more than bragging rights and a place in the history books. The only value was to show the public some magical stuff while keeping the cost involved low keyed. Even China can now land a unmanned vessel on the moon. obviously the US can too. So is a manned vessel worth the costs.

$25.4 billion (1973)

$153 billion (2018)

So is collecting a few moon rocks worth it? Is the prestige worth it? The world still turns. Yeah there have been technological achievements but would the same achievements have been done anyway without a man landing?

 

[22lcidw]

In the end they were doing what we were and they needed to do what they were better at and could afford to do. The N 1 and the Buran Programs cost them a lot of resources which they could not afford looking back. More modern space capsules could have been developed much more cheaply and the gradual increase in rocket power could have been used a couple of decades after we landed on the moon to at least circle it. Soyuz is a wonderful craft. But it is old and tired. Waiting for a replacement. A replacement decades to late in coming.