Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Yaroslav Azhnyuk - Serhiy Korolyov was the Genius who Launched Humanity into Space, Born in Zhytomyr" video.
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I spent a lot of time arguing with ruZzians trolls how have "appropriated" Korolyov, like everything in their culture. They would claim he was "Russian" but in all his documents he would put for question "Natsionalnist" (Nationality), "Ukrayinets" (Ukrainian). I have visited the Korolyov home in Zhitomir where he was born and the museum across the road. (The ruZZians attacked the town, it's near Kyiv)). I recommend the book by James Harford "Korolev: How one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the moon" (because it was the Soviet period he uses the Russian transliterations for everything). At 6:45 Yaroslav mentions "wrong scissions by the Communist party", one major F up, Brezhnev's cancellation of the N1 manned lunar launch vehicle (Soviet "Saturn V") in 1974. They had 2 flight ready launch vehicles ready to go, on the pad, at Tyuratam (vehicle's 8L & 9L - L= "Luniy" - moon) that would have proven the concept, but they where ordered scrapped, after 4 launch failures. N1 had a large cluster of 30 engines in the first stage (Block A), smaller & cheaper than the 5 huge Rocketdyne F-1 Engines on the US Saturn V. It's no co-incidence Elon Musk's "Spaceship" launch vehicle uses a large cluster of 33 engines it its first stage. He's what you call in Russian "ochen skupoy chelovek" ("very stingy (or cheap) man", just like the Soviet Communist's cheapness). The "N" in N1 means "nossitel" = carrier. After victory here in this war I reckon you could pitch the idea of a Korolyov movie to President Zelensky;s TV production company and he'd do it as a serious thing after the burden of war leadership drains the comic out of him (Yaroslav should tweet the President on Twitter and plant the seed of the idea in him!!!). I could talk about Korolyov in detail all day, best SC episode for me ever!!!!
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