That was a one-shot political stunt.
That's not the point though. It demonstrated that in spite differing deologies, co-operation between Soviet Union and the United States was possible.
That was a one-shot political stunt.
That's not the point though. It demonstrated that in spite differing deologies, co-operation between Soviet Union and the United States was possible.
That was a one-shot political stunt.
Not entirely. Of course, it was primarily a joint one-shot political stunt, but it was also theoretically supposed to develop the technology for either country to send missions to rescue stranded 'nauts from the other country.
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Thank you for straitening me out on those errors. This is what I get for using single sources (Oberg) for the history of the Soviet Space Program.![]()
No, Oberg is fine. It's just that (I'm willing to bet) you're using one of his pre-1991 books, which basically means it's wrong (when it comes to the Soviet space program). Even most '90s era books are problematic.
It was illegal. As I said before, Congress passed a bill which would, if NASA cooperated with the Soviets to land a man on the moon, remove ALL funding for NASA. This was in response to Kennedy proposing it in the first place, and he was fighting it until he died.
Again, you have to overcome this fact before anything else.