'@uktana' I heard an interview with Khruschev about Korolev and Moon Race. I'd say that he underestimates how right Korolev was in his preferred solutions and the scale of issues that could be encountered by manned program using Chelomei/Glushko's rockets with toxic fuel.
One of the space program's biggest jokes is that Glushko, who was so married to the idea of hydrogen being terrible fuel, ended up working on Energia/Buran system with it's main hydrogen/oxygen engine.
Soviet equality is an interesting thing really. It existed on paper, in rules and on screen (gender and ethnic representation in media was a big thing), didn't seem to do anything to general benevolently partronizing attitude towards women in personal interactions. Protection of motherhood was also a big deal, and even "liberated woman" was expected to form a family, which was considered a basis of healthy society.
One uniquely Soviet phenomenon (partially caused by gender imbalance and shifting employment requirements after WII) was a proletarian Comrade Woman - built like a tank, working in "physical" occupation (machining, construction, menial labor), stereotypically more manly than her deadbeat husband she's drags through life.
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'@uktana' I heard an interview with Khruschev about Korolev and Moon Race. I'd say that he underestimates how right Korolev was in his preferred solutions and the scale of issues that could be encountered by manned program using Chelomei/Glushko's rockets with toxic fuel.
One of the space program's biggest jokes is that Glushko, who was so married to the idea of hydrogen being terrible fuel, ended up working on Energia/Buran system with it's main hydrogen/oxygen engine.
Soviet equality is an interesting thing really. It existed on paper, in rules and on screen (gender and ethnic representation in media was a big thing), didn't seem to do anything to general benevolently partronizing attitude towards women in personal interactions. Protection of motherhood was also a big deal, and even "liberated woman" was expected to form a family, which was considered a basis of healthy society.
One uniquely Soviet phenomenon (partially caused by gender imbalance and shifting employment requirements after WII) was a proletarian Comrade Woman - built like a tank, working in "physical" occupation (machining, construction, menial labor), stereotypically more manly than her deadbeat husband she's drags through life.