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With a PoD later than 1956 create plausible scenario about the construction and launch of the SSTO. Can include everything except open, hot war between the US and the Soviet Union (nuclear wars, surviving/reforming Soviet Union, technocratic movements, Sino-Soviet War and Nixon winning 1960 election are allowed).

SSTO means that spaceship must start, fly into space and land on space in one piece, without ejecting stages nor starting from another vehicle.

My idea is that American-first-in-space (as in TL linked in my signature) can push the Soviet Union more into space propaganda successes and the development of the Moon rocket (We have 1956-1965 timetable for Sergei P. Korolev, 1956-1971 for Mikhail Yangel, 1956-1984 for Vladimir Chelomey and 1956-1989 for Valentin Glushko). With a earlier start of the research we might even see more reliable N-1 engines (Glushko can be forced to cooperate, Korolev too) or even start of the UR-700 (and UR-900 - poor Kazakhstan). We have so much divergences from that PoD that Khrushchev can stay in power, die earlier or even develop healthier Soviet Union - or even technocratic one. Continuous space race - I can see Nixon winning 1960 election who would not allow Soviet domination of space and defeat of his baby project (Moon landing I supposse) but instead push for more space exploration. OTL Space Race was seen more as Kennedy's baby, ATL it would be seen as Nixon project. Funds sunk into both NASA and OKBs could cause development of the SSTO in late 20th century, early 21st as replacement for conventional Space Shuttles/rockets.
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