In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were convinced that we would be the first to land on the moon ...

Brezhnev ordered the Soviet lunar project canceled and its existence erased from the record. (It wasn’t rediscovered until glasnost.) The Soviet space program never had the elegance or ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

The Soviet lunar program envisaged setting up a network of habitable bases and conducting scientific experiments in various areas of the Earth’s natural satellite in 1970-1985. There were also ...

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We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri ...

We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing after the Soviet Union took the lead in the 'Space Race'.