In the Cold War space race of the 1950s and ‘60s, Moscow beat the United States to the punch in almost every major category of space exploration. But not the moon.
As the world marks the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind” on July 20, 1969, we take a look back at the Soviet Union’s own efforts to land a man on the moon -- and what went wrong.
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