Just this morning I was telling a coworker (who asked about the Apollo 11 jigsaw puzzle I [got off eBay cuz I had it as a kid and] set up for us all to do in the kitchen) about a metal globe of the moon I had when I was young. It came apart into hemispheres, or the outlines of hemispheres, I guess, really. But I don't remember how old I was when I got it, and what it made of the dark side.
Didn't know until a TV special about Luna 5 being up there that same weekend. I learned a lot about the Russians, since I didn't know much about them. But I figured you had some major knowledge of the N1 and such.
Luna 15, I believe. It was somewhere in the teens.
Oops. yeah, space geek. I remember that there were little hints about the N1 (not by name) published in the 1980's. There were even drawings that I suspect were based on leaked verbal descriptions of spy satellite images. It wasn't until around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union that pictures started to appear. By the end of the 90's, the story was pretty much out. But I was following space geeky stuff pretty closely at the time, and most of the world didn't pay attention.
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Just this morning I was telling a coworker (who asked about the Apollo 11 jigsaw puzzle I [got off eBay cuz I had it as a kid and] set up for us all to do in the kitchen) about a metal globe of the moon I had when I was young. It came apart into hemispheres, or the outlines of hemispheres, I guess, really. But I don't remember how old I was when I got it, and what it made of the dark side.
Didn't know until a TV special about Luna 5 being up there that same weekend. I learned a lot about the Russians, since I didn't know much about them. But I figured you had some major knowledge of the N1 and such.
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Oops. yeah, space geek. I remember that there were little hints about the N1 (not by name) published in the 1980's. There were even drawings that I suspect were based on leaked verbal descriptions of spy satellite images. It wasn't until around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union that pictures started to appear. By the end of the 90's, the story was pretty much out. But I was following space geeky stuff pretty closely at the time, and most of the world didn't pay attention.
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