ИСТИНА

In 1959, unmanned spacecrafts were created and launched to the Moon. The USSR’s space mission consisted of 17 unmanned spacecrafts that were to reach the lunar surface and to collect samples of lunar rocks. During 8 years starting from 1966 to 1974, the program-providing human access to the moon was developing. Rocket-carrier H1 extra heavy class space launch vehicle was used as the main launch vehicle and man-related spacecraft, launching heavy (75 tons) on-orbit station into the low earth orbit. There were various scenarios of landing men on the Moon discussed by S.P. Korolev.