we like to make fun of the american space program because they were behind in a bunch of milestones, but damn, landing on the moon is pretty fuckin good IMO.
like I don’t really think of it as an american victory over the Soviets, but as a general human accomplishment, landing on the moon is pretty much one of the best we got.
Soviet accomplishments in space stations are probably as important or more important but damn, humans landed on the fuckin moon. holy shit!
Sure it’s an incredible and equally ridiculous achievement (look up Apollo in realtime) but there’s also a reason we haven’t put a human farther out than low earth orbit.
Also everyone who cares about doing it again or putting humans on any other planet within our lifetimes is no better than any facist.