Lunar Sputnik Apollo N1 Vostok Saturn Soyuz Gemini

I now know why the United States of America had to place an astronaut on the moon.

The CCCP launched the first rocket into space and they were the first to orbit the earth. The CCCP put the first satellite into space and relayed the first radio signals from space back to earth. They were also the first to have a capsule return safely to earth and they brought back the first photographs from space of the earth. They were the first to put an animal in space, the first to put a human being in space, the first to put a woman in space, the first to put civilians in space. The CCCP were also the first to put two crewed rockets in orbit simultaneously, and the first to have one of their cosmonauts compete a space walk. The only thing left was for someone to safely land on the moon and get back.

Therefore Kennedy's rhetoric for a moon landing was a much needed statement at a time when Russia had consistently won hands down, time and time again.

Season 10

Thank you Bro for the Mountfield petrol engine lawn mower that I found in your skip when I visited you a decade ago. As an anniversary treat, I may strip it down and spray it this year. A fantastic machine that starts first time after each winter break, still put to use ten years after it was discarded.