u/carloskeeper

About 5 years ago, I was holding my rifle and I pulled the trigger, intending only to dry fire it. I had forgotten that I had left it loaded the night before. Stupid, I know. The rifle went off with a deafening roar. It wasn't pointed at me, but I could also never find a bullet hole anywhere.

My life since has felt like I am in my own personal hell. I wonder if the rifle was pointed at my head and I just remember it incorrectly. Maybe I died and went to hell?

The premise of the show "For All Mankind" is that if Sergei Korolev had not died prematurely, then the Soviet Space Program would have continued its successes and beat the US to the moon.

Suppose that his (more-or-less) counterpart in the West, Werner von Braun, had died prematurely. Would the US have still achieved the Moon Landing when it did, or at all? Assume for this scenario that Korolev dies just as he did in OTL. Basically, both space programs lose their star engineers around the same time, but for unrelated causes.

The premise of the show "For All Mankind" is that if Sergei Korolev had not died prematurely, then the Soviet Space Program would have continued its successes and beat the US to the moon.

Suppose that his (more-or-less) counterpart in the West, Werner von Braun, had died prematurely. Would the US have still achieved the Moon Landing when it did, or at all? Assume for this scenario that Korolev dies just as he did in OTL. Basically, both space programs lose their star engineers around the same time, but for unrelated causes.