Talk:Heavy ICBM

Giant blob of parenthetical OR excised
The following was contained in a single parenthetical. This is clearly original research, even though it's not bad as a contextual aid. My paragraph breaks. My clarification needed.

Zond-Proton had demonstrated the capability to land cosmonauts on the Moon on this flight, though there was a significant probability that the entry and landing would not have been survivable.

Adapting ICBM boosters for human spaceflight had a legacy that goes back to the beginning, including the Titan ICBM for Gemini, the Atlas ICBM for Mercury, and the Soviet R-7 for the first human orbital missions. And even with suborbital missions, the Redstone of Project Mercury was a US Army IRBM.

President John F. Kennedy privately explained to NASA Administrator James Webb that the purpose of the human spaceflight program was as "a test of the system".

If someone can see a way to re-add any of this material in a more encyclopedic way, go ahead. &mdash; MaxEnt 04:37, 3 July 2020 (UTC)