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.

 

[michaelreader]

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.

But on apple for all mankind assuming the soviets had landed first in june of 68, how big of a blow would this have been to the nasa space program then?

 

[COLGeek]

As you have yet to offer your thoughts. Who knows what would of, could have, or should have happened in regards to your hypothetical question.

I wouldn't base anything on a TV show.

 

[billslugg]

But on apple for all mankind assuming the soviets had landed first in june of 68, how big of a blow would this have been to the nasa space program then?

"But on apple for all mankind" ???

 

[contrarian]

The US had three times the resources to draw upon in the sixties than the USSR did.

We also had the best rocket scientists, captured after WWII (Wernher von Braun, et al.).

The primary reason the Soviets beat us into space was because we were working on ICBMs during the 1950s to annihilate them.