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THE MOON RACE JOCKEYS - WHAT IF THE SOVIET UNION HAD WON?
By Sergei N. Stepanenko, Contributing Editor
Saint Petersburg, Russia

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. This announcement started the “Moon Race” between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The race went neck and neck until July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong made the first step, and said “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”, and the United States won the race.

But what if the Soviet Union had won? Who then would have been the first human to set foot on the lunar surface?
 
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Alexei Leonov
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Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk on 18 March 1965, would have been a commander of the first lunar-landing mission with Oleg Makarov as the LOK pilot in lunar orbit.

A lunar orbiting spacecraft named LOK (Lunniy Orbitalniy Korabl) would have been the mother ship during the trip to lunar orbit.
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LOK - Lunniy Orbitalniy Korabi (Lunar Orbiting Spacecraft)
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Alexei Leonov would have performed a spacewalk and transfer to a LK "lunar cabin" (Lunniy Kabina) which would descend and land on the lunar surface.

LK - Lunniy Kabina (Lunar Cabin)

Then it would be used to return Leonov aboard LOK.
LK Landing on the Moon

It was an N-1 heavy booster failure (four test launches and four spectacular blasts) that determined the first words to be heard by mankind from the Moon would be in English and not in Russian.

N-1 Rocket
 
Contributing Websites: www.astronaut.ru • www.buran.ru

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