Comment Re:Soviets had some nice "firsts" (Score -1) 44
The N-1 was an abject failure, without cryofuels it could only carry air into orbit. The design was overly complex and it failed, failed, failed, and failed again, while the Saturn V never failed once. Not once. The Soviet owed all of their success to Sergei Korolev, to the point that not only the space program revolved around him and a lot of his own pet visions, but once he died they were pretty much lost in space. Meanwhile having won the Moon Race, the US winded down which was a mistake.