America lost three times from the Soviet Union in Mission Moon

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On September 15, 1959, the then President of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, had reached Washington on a historic visit to America.

On his tour of the White House, Khrushchev presented a gift to his counterpart Dwight Eisenhower. This gift was a circular object, in which the symbol of the Soviet Union was printed.

This gift was iconic and tangled too – though it was an imitation of Luna 2’s onboard, which was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface a day earlier.

Even before the successful completion of the US space agency NASA’s Opolo 11 in 1969 and the first person on the moon, Russia had left the Americans twice in the race to reach the moon.

Starting space

By reaching the first on the Moon, the Soviet Union gave a remarkable pace to the space race. This race was also started by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957.

After this, Moscow successfully managed to do the first soft landing through the Luna 9 on the Moon’s surface in February 1966, and the picture of the moon’s surface was first released by the Soviet Union.

Two months later, Luna was the first space shuttle to make the moon’s orbit a circle. This helped to study the surface of the Moon. Earlier, space scientists of both countries had believed that trying indirectly instead of trying to get directly to the surface of the moon would be much better.

In 1961, NASA scientist John Hubbault gave Lunar Arbit Rendezvous (LOR) vision, which said that there will be a madruship that will rotate the orbit of the Moon and a small spacecraft will separate from it and land on the surface.

According to Hibbut, this approach will save both time and fuel. Along with this, the various steps of space flight will be made to masal, mission development, testing, construction, space station, countdown and launch.

In the same way, the Americans were able to land on the Moon surface. However, in 1966, the Soviet Union reached a very close reach of the Moon.

America’s Edge
“We had forgotten all the accomplishments of the Soviet Union, before the person was removed from the robot,” said London-based science museum space curator Doug Millard.

Luna 2

The space shuttle was launched on September 12, 1959. Soviet officials had done such a thing in secret that the world was aware of their achievement. He shared the secret information of his campaign with British astronaut Bernard Lowell.

Lowell told the world about the success of this mission. He also informed America about this achievement which was not ready to accept the achievement of the Soviet Union earlier.

Luna 2 collided on the surface of the Moon at about 12,000 kilometers per hour after midnight on September 14, 1959. It is very possible that the spacecraft will be destroyed including its equipment.

This mission proved to be more than competing against each other during the cold war.

There were scientific experiments from Luna 2- Moon did not have any effective magnetic field and no radiation belt was found.

LB Jackson, Human Exploration Program Manager of the UK Space Agency, explains, “The campaign received important information about the moon’s surface.”

Luna 9

Seven years later, Luna 9 had helped Apollo campaign.

Before landing on the Moon, Soviet Union and American scientists believed that the surface of the moon would be very soft in terms of spacecraft, fearing that the surface of the moon would be filled with sand in which the space shuttle would be lost.

This campaign from the Soviet Union revealed that the surface of the Moon was solid and it was very important information.

“This was really a scientific achievement and helped future campaigns,” explains Jackson. “

Luna 10

This was also the victory of the Soviet Union on America. Jackson tells us that we should remember that geography-based politics also gave direction to space race.

Luna 10 detected more important things, including information on the elements of the Moon’s soil and the small particles of stones. Small particles of stones are moving fast in space, it could become a threat to astronauts on any space expedition and on the surface of the moon. Due to the absence of atmospheric space in space, the particles moving in no pausing of the torque could have been more dangerous than the Earth.

Famous space historian Asif Siddiqui has said in an interview to the American NGO Planetary Society in June, “The Soviet Union had started thinking that in 1961 he had won the race of space by sending the first passenger in space or by first spell in 1965. They never thought that America would be able to land the astronaut on the Moon’s surface. “

In 1968, the United States made a decisive edge when under Apollo 8 campaign he sent a spacecraft including a human into the moon, which returned to his class successfully.

Within a year, Apollo 11 managed to land on the Moon’s surface. The Soviet Union did not have any answer for the Apollo 8 campaign, even before it was also ahead of America in terms of submarine manned space. Why the hell?

NASA historian Roger Lionius told the BBC, “Where do we start from. They did not have enough scientific technology, neither was economic basis nor the organizational structure was better.”

It is obvious that the Soviet Union was successful in sending the campaign to the moon but it was not able to evolve to send the warheads with humans.

But the biggest thing was that Moscow did not have a powerful rocket that could send the spacecraft along with humans directly to the moon.

The US had great Saturn V, which was used successfully in all the Moon-related missions mission. The Soviet Union had N1, which failed in all four test observations.

Apart from this, the Soviet Union also lagged behind in the system of governance and due to the centralized top-down system, America was successful in its mission.

Political struggle

Before the USA and the Soviet Union, in a space race, it was understandable that in order to succeed the Lunar Orbit Rendbu (LOR) mission, they needed an in-space manual docking system where the campaign could be used at the battle-level .

America was working to complete this challenge until 1966, but the Soviet Union did not achieve it before January 1969.

The Soviet space mission had to struggle constantly with the Communist leadership. They had to compete with the army for resources. At that time the army wanted to speed up its nuclear program.

Obstacles

In his book Challenge to Apollo- The Soviet Union and Space Race, in 1945-74, Asif Siddiqui has said that only a few years after the success of America’s campaign, the Soviet Union began to take the campaign to send humans on the moon seriously in 1964 Done

He explains, “There was considerable confidentiality about the Soviet space program, but it was like an ad hoc program that had a lot of obstacles.”

The people associated with the top level of the Soviet Union have also said this kind of thing. Sergey Khrushchev, son of President Khrushchev, President of the Soviet Union, told the American American magazine,

“When it comes to the Soviet space program, it is a misconception in the West that there was a centralized system. There was a much more centralized system than the Apollo mission, and there were many designers in the Soviet Union who were competing with each other. “

Not only that, Sergey Kurolev, the engineer who led the space mission of Moscow, suddenly died in January 1966. It was a huge blow.

Last attempt

When the Soviet Union realized that he was lagging behind in the campaign to launch the first man on the Moon, then he tried a final trick, he started the campaign whose purpose was to return the sampling from the surface of the moon before Apollo 11 Was there.

On July 13, 1969, three days before the flight of Apollo 11, Luna 15 flew for space. Four days later and Apollo 11 to 72 hours ago, this vehicle entered the Moon’s orbit. But it was destroyed in an attempt to reach the surface.

Wesley Mihhin, who led the space program of the Soviets of the Soviets to the Soviet Union, told the American TV Network PBS in 1999, in philosophical terms, “We believed that we are ahead of the whole world and we will be ahead in this mission from the United States. But desire is one thing, and opportunities are another thing. “