Fake news!!!
His fears were soon realised as plans for a manned circumlunar mission were dropped following the landing of Apollo 11, and Leonov's hopes to walk on the lunar surface were dashed thanks to the USSR's monster N-1 rocket proving to be explosively unreliable.
Completely fake news! The N1 rocket was actually explosively very reliable - it exploded 100% of the launch attempts!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
