On This Day:  November 23

1972 -- After the fourth un­suc­cess­ful test of its N-1 lu­nar rock­et, the Sovi­et Union de­cides to turn its at­ten­tion back to its vast­ly more suc­cess­ful bal­lis­tic mis­sile pro­gram.

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