[FPSPACE] Could non-human life forms have been on that 1969 N-1launch?

[Phillip Clark]

Only problem is that the July 1969 N-1 did not carry a lunar lander: it was intended to place the heavy Zond in lunar orbit and then bring it back to Earth - an unmanned Apollo 8.   No landing.

Phillip Clark

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: LARRY KLAES 
  To: fpspace 
  Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 8:07 PM
  Subject: [FPSPACE] Could non-human life forms have been on that 1969 N-1launch?


  I wonder if the Soviets put a non-human being in that N-1 capsule?  That way they could claim the first living creature on the Moon at least.  They did actually have the first living organisms circle the Moon with Zond 5 in 1968 - turtles and other creatures, if I recall correctly.  

  After all, the Soviets did try to at least get surface samples back before Apollo 11 with Luna 15, so why not try some kind of coup with a life form?  But of course I know it would not have the same impact as a group of cosmonauts.

  And technically, if the Soviets did not sterilize Luna 2, then they did deposit the first Earth creatures on the Moon in the form of microbes in 1959.

  As Napoleon once said:  "History is a set of lies agreed upon."
    
  Larry





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