1 year before?

[michaelreader]

Had the soviets landed on the moon in June of '68, would this have pushed the Americans even further by leaps and bounds, head and shoulders to do something that the Soviet space program could only dream about? Where would this take the space race to?

 

[COLGeek]

Who knows? It would only be speculation to ponder that now.

 

[michaelreader]

Who knows? It would only be speculation to ponder that now.

Would the nasa space program feel demoralized?

 

[COLGeek]

Would the nasa space program feel demoralized?

Same answer.

What do you think?

 

[Rob77]

Would the nasa space program feel demoralized?

Doubt it, Russians were the first to put man in space, but don't think it slowed NASA's space program.
JFK promised to put a man on moon by end of decade, so they were probably held to that.

 

[billslugg]

1963 US GDP was $637B
1963 USSR GDP wa $228B

The US had three times the resources to draw upon in the sixties than the USSR did. The Apollo program consumed 4% of our GDP in the busiest years. It would have taken the Soviets maybe 12% of theirs to equal us. A big stretch.