Apollo would be the spacecraft for manned lunar missions and Saturn would become the family of launchers that would make these missions possible. While months went by without the Soviets launching new manned missions following the Voskhod‐2 in March 1965, the appearance of the Proton awakened the imagination of observers. Thus, in its National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) from January 27, 1965 on the Soviet space program, the CIA stated that there was no indication that the Soviet Union had started a competition with the United States for the race to the Moon. On December 21, the third Saturn‐5 launcher sent Apollo‐8 to the Moon for a mission that would be greatly successful and would speed up the Apollo's accomplishment with the first manned lunar landing in history, barely seven months later.


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    Title :

    Saturn's Rival


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    Publication date :

    2018-02-12


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    23 pages




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    Article/Chapter (Book)


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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