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Apr 8, 2016 at 9:15 comment added Hobbes I think I'll have to retract this, haven't found a reference anywhere. According to Chertok's 'Rockets and people', they estimated the first stage test stand would cost R100 million and would take four years to build. Korolev was adamant not to allow this delay, over objections from e.g. Leonov. "Khrushchev does not agree and says that the government would never have denied Korolev proper ground-testing facilities had he asked for them - 'especially a chief designer of Korolev's calibre" (from 'Soviet and Russian lunar exploration')
Apr 7, 2016 at 15:39 comment added Joshua @Hobbes: Bizarre. They could have just filled the upper stage housing with earth for much the same effect.
Apr 6, 2016 at 17:39 comment added Ezra Bailey @Hobbes Any chance of a source on this? I'd love to read more!
Apr 6, 2016 at 16:57 comment added geoffc @Hobbes Now THAT is interesting! Such low tech as Concrete production, limits access to the moon. Neato completo!
Apr 6, 2016 at 16:35 comment added Hobbes Apparently a first stage test stand was ruled out because it would tie up too much of the available concrete production at the time.
Apr 6, 2016 at 15:18 history answered geoffc CC BY-SA 3.0