September 1989
From The Space Library
The Soviet news magazine Izvestia published an article confirming that the Soviet Union had established a secret program in the 1960s to beat the United States in landing astronauts on the Moon. The Izvestia article claimed that the Soviet Union had secretly conducted a crew-assisted lunar landing program from 1961 to 1969 comparable to the Apollo program and had developed a booster-known as the N1-comparable to the United States Saturn V. The Soviet lunar program was eventually abandoned after three attempts to launch the N1 failed; the United States successfully landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969. (FBIS-Sov-89-210, Nov 1/89; H Chron, Sep 17/89)
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