Timeline for What kept the Soviets from going to the Moon (before the US)?
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 17:39 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | @MWB Both men were victims of Stalin's idiotic purges. To save his own skin Glushko was forced to make false charges against Korolev, who ended up in the Gulag as a result. Arguably, the deprivations Korolev suffered there eventually necessitated the 1966 surgery that killed him. Such a tragic waste of such a brilliant mind. | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 10:55 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | @Mark Glushko's biggest engine wasn't starting from scratch like the NK-15, though. The time it took Kuznetsov to design his engine from scratch is time that could have instead been used to integration test Glushko's engines. | |
| Nov 29, 2023 at 5:26 | comment | added | Mark | It's not clear that the Korolev-Glushko disagreement was as important as it sounds. In 1963, when the decision to go with Kuznetsov was made, Glushko's biggest engine was comparable to the NK-15. It took Glushko seven years to develop the RD-270 as a counterpart to the F-1 -- solving combustion instabilities in a large engine is at least as hard as getting the plumbing right for a massive engine cluster. The big issue with the NK-15 was a lack of testing (and lack of resources for testing). | |
| Nov 28, 2023 at 17:38 | history | edited | Ian Kemp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2023 at 10:52 | history | answered | Ian Kemp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |