THE SOVIETS WON THE RACE TO THE MOON?
Instead of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and the “one small step…”, imagine if the world watched as a Soviet cosmonaut took the giant leap for mankind by landing on the Moon. With the raising of the hammer and sickle, he would signal victory in the biggest of Space Race contests and return to Earth a hero of all time. “There would have been huge celebrations in the Soviet Union,” says Dr Thomas Ellis, Teaching Fellow at the London School of Economics, “with parades and ceremonies symbolically linking the space heroes to the Communist Party’s role as
