/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12430233
Why were there so many test flights and such during the Apollo era but now there’s few? Like I remember there being a dozen or so suborbital flights of completed Apollo capsules before finally putting people in it. Meanwhile Dragon flew three times before flying people - Pad Abort, Demo-1, and IFA.

Is there any timeline where the Russians beat the US to the moon?

>>12417153
The N-1 was slowly getting better but honestly the Soviet philosophy of “Let it fly then fix what went wrong” doesn’t work well with big rockets.

The UR700 design was shit but who says that the Soviets couldn’t have just clustered together big tanks instead of whatever the hell the N-1 was?

Also it’s sad reading about their lunar programme because everything EXCEPT the N1 worked great.