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Did anyone ask the public if it wants to go to the Moon in 1961? Or if it wants Horizon/Orion? The public just faced the fact of the cancellation. The Soviets had upgraded NK-15 to NK-33 (the N1F launch planned on 1974) and had many tens of failed launches before. This never stopped from continuation. See, the N1 launch mass is just 4 times greater than Proton's, and there were 49 Proton failures. Every Proton failure was a fire of ~700 t of the toxic hypergolic fuel. Every N1 failure was a loss of 1 200 t of kerosene. The last lunar Apollo has flown in 1972. The next one (the cancelled Apollo-18) was planned on 1974, too. I.e. the Soviet lunar program was cancelled not when the Apollos visited the Moon. (Yeah, it probably took several years to realize that the Americans have already visited the Moon, keeping spending billions of the failed race). It was cancelled exactly once the American lunar program continuation was dropped. So, nobody cared who is first-second-thirty-third, the aim of the race was not the flag planting. It was a race of "what if the opponents build the lunar military base first and will keep us away from there". All that "racing" was for public. Once one party cancelled their attempts, the another party breathed a sigh of relief and immediately cancelled its own. Of course, no one of them will say that they were planning to build a military lunar base. The fortified ones, in vacuum, protected by ground? Possible, but not that easy. But maintaining the lunar base is by orders of magnitude harder. A millisecond-long flash of X-rays above the base? Or a local moonquake with no cloud of dust because no air? Also the military base makes sense mostly on the invisible side of the Moon. If put the rocket on the Moon - just a half-hour. On the Moon. Not on the Earth.

You incidentally pulled out the plug in the soup sink. Waiter! Why is this egg jumping?

A wise advice: when somebody tells you that SH is N1, answer that not N1, but N1F. N1F was to be equipped with NK33 instead of NK15, and NK33 have been luckily tested by lifting Antares.

[snip] If they won't get tired of breathing on the stamp earlier.

The upper stages of N1 used 8 and 4 engines respectively, so the sixpack from the 1st one looks like a good compromise.

Should try six.

Banned every body not banned since August.

(Intercepts the Starship by a kilogram-mass single impactor shot from the tiny lunar lander long before it comes to the Moon, Nobody even knows, what happened. Probably, a meteorite. Advanced version, By an impactor shot from Phobos.)

A bit later they will upgrade this to a stamp, But this needs time. Or the thermal expansion did it.

Granted. A fllet of space invaders come and occupy your school for their HQ. I wish the space invaders need collaboration and give fancy spacesuits.

1. It's Starshio, properly evolved. 2. They had to, after the Starship failed, Moonzilla. It lives there, in the lunar sea,

(Reads and populates the Moon and the Phobos with cheap anti-Starship shooting mines. Probably, the first Lunar Race (tm) was cancelled exactly because to eliminate the military lunar base appeared to be much cheaper and easier than to build and support. So, they signed the Outer Space Treaty to not disturb each other with silly attempts.)

*** The thing on photo is in Cen(taurus). The Great Attractor, to which we move, is in Norma. Still any doubts?

Still swim, but vertically. Can Godzilla in kung-fu?

Ah, a woman. The famous woman intuition. First they feel what should happen, then you are guilty if didn't.

How did he know? A time traveller? A prophet? A warlock? A jinxer?

than without it. Probably, this can be counted as a granted wish. *** I wish to be as good with a crowbar as the nuclear physicists are, like Gordon Freeman.

Educated people know that the Earth is a ball moving around the Sun in an ellipse. Illiterate people believe that the Earth is a projection of a 2d circle on a 3d space, expanded in the perpendicular direction, along the so-called "polar axis", and the Sun is moving around it in a perturbated epicycloid.

They write "завершили сеанс выхода в открытый космос" = "they have finished the seance of EVA" *** Because Russian cosmonauts enjoy the EVA like a movie seance. They have a rest by performing it.

In the age of car autopilots, it's a strange question. Mouse click on the place to land, button "Land there", To save the mouse clicks on usual routes: "Like always, sir/ma'am?" "Yes"

It has been clicked, hasn't it?

"Hey, kitty, kitty, kitty..."

Snark Hill

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