Soviet-US mission to the moon

That's not the point though. It demonstrated that in spite differing deologies, co-operation between Soviet Union and the United States was possible.

Or to be really cynical about it, it was a one-off political stunt together. :)
 
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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.
 
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.

The US could theoretically rescue cosmonauts, but Apollo missions flew too high for the Soyuz to reach them.
 
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.
 
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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.:eek:

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.

I don't think that applies to space rescues. It would be a propaganda triumph for whoever pulled it off. The Soviets would sooner have let their cosmonauts die in space (as evidenced in a number of Soviet sea disasters where Moscow ordered crews of sinking Soviet naval vessels to refuse Western rescue, despite the fact that it meant the crew would be doomed:mad:). The US would have HAD to accept Soviet assistance, had it ever been practical to do so.
 
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