I’ll always be a US apologist when this meme comes up 🦅
OK but seriously, the moon landing was an amazing accomplishment, although it definitely obscures the Soviet accomplishments in the American popular conception of space exploration. Also, most of everything we currently do in space was invented by the Soviets - the manned lunar landing was sadly a dead end in the development of space travel. And there’s definitely some truth to America changing the goalposts when it lost the race to first person in space. If the N1 program actually worked out and the Soviets got to the moon first, the Americans probably would have spun up the Apollo Applications Program and proclaim the new goal is a manned flyby of Venus or Mars.
I’ll always be a US apologist when this meme comes up 🦅
OK but seriously, the moon landing was an amazing accomplishment, although it definitely obscures the Soviet accomplishments in the American popular conception of space exploration. Also, most of everything we currently do in space was invented by the Soviets - the manned lunar landing was sadly a dead end in the development of space travel. And there’s definitely some truth to America changing the goalposts when it lost the race to first person in space. If the N1 program actually worked out and the Soviets got to the moon first, the Americans probably would have spun up the Apollo Applications Program and proclaim the new goal is a manned flyby of Venus or Mars.
Or like the first colony on the moon. Damn shame the soviets never made it to the moon.
Technically they made it to the moon. They just made a crater tho
What?