Dec 17 1989
From The Space Library
Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology returned from a visit to the Soviet Union with photographs of a crew-assisted lunar landing vehicle that was to be used to land Soviet cosmonauts on the Moon in 1968. The westerners were given the first concrete evidence of a Soviet lunar landing program when they were shown components of a lunar lander at the Moscow Aviation Institute and were allowed to take photographs. Soviet officials confirmed that a race to land astronauts on the Moon had indeed occurred during the 1960s but that the Soviets had fallen behind the United States as a result of several launch failures of their N1 rocket. At the time of the successful lunar mission of Apollo 11, the Soviet Union had denied having a crew-tended lunar landing program. (UPI, Dec 18/89; NY Times, Dec 18/89; USA Today, Dec 18/89; W Post, Dec 18/89; W Times, Dec 18/89; P Inq, Dec 18/89; C Trib, Dec 18/89; B Sun; Dec 18/89)
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