Pat Flannery wrote:
Of course you end up having your choice of landing sites severely
curtailed; but if it's a propaganda victory as opposed to useful lunar
science you are after,

That's one thing a lot of people miss when analyzing the fUSSR and its
actions/designs/plans, especially in the military arena. They were
not a clone nor a mirror of the US, their problems, goals, and
resultant strategies were often quite different as a result.

D.
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