What If Russia Was First To The Moon - Soviet LK Lander!

In 1967. Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov and Yuri Gagarin exit the LK lander and become the first people to walk on the surface of the Moon. People across the vast USSR, and their allies abroad, watch in awe and cheer in celebration at this achievement - while Washington fumes and NASA… is called to congress. This never happened of course, but mankind was closer to this scenario than you could imagine and the red moon almost happened. Join me today on a journey through the stars and how the Soviet ambitions to be the first on the Moon almost destroyed the entire Soviet space program. In the 1960s there was an initiative for a joint US and Soviet program to put the man on the Moon. But with the death of JFK and change in the Soviet leadership this idea was abandoned. Instead, a competition began. The Soviets made their priority to put the man on the Moon first, afraid of the awakening of the NASA and their potential. So,the legendary engineer Sergey Korolyev was pu