What if the Soviets Landed on the Moon First? 

"Mr. President, the Russians just landed on the Moon and have begun painting it red!" "So what. We'll just fly there after they're finished and then we'll write Coca-Cola on it."

- Mr. President, Soviets landed on the Moon! - Prepeare mission to the Sun then! - But we'll burne! - Nope! You fly at night.

What if The U.K. got to The Moon first, and made it a new colony of The British Empire?

Fun fact: A sputnik is satellite in Russian. In other words, we call satellites "Sputniks" because we were first.

But North Korea landed a man on the sun so they won the space race

_BREAKING NEWS! FIRST WORDS FROM MAN ON VENUS_ "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" _BREAKING NEWS! FIRST MAN ON VENUS HAS DIED!_

"I was so good at Kerbal though..."

"I'm a Level 89 Mage in Freedom" ~America, 1969

In Soviet Russia. The moon lands on you.

If the Soviets landed on the moon first, two certanties would occur: 1. The Clangers would adopt communism. 2. The USSR would dominate the global cheese industry.

We are not gonna send you to the moon, we are going to send us to the moon the entirety of Russia flies off into space

The N1 got off the ground. The problem is it kept coming back down.

I love the part where the american is like "Did you use commie witchcraft".

"I was so good at Kerbels though."

What will the Soviets say though like a cool quote "that's one small step for *US* but a giant leap for *OUR* Union"

Some interesting points in our timeline: - The designers of Sputnik 1 later (50 years later on anniversary) said that they had hoped that a Space Race would start from that launch. - Sergei Korolev was the chief engineer of Soviet Space Rocket Development. He died in 1966, so before the N1 rocket was completed. Many analysts consider had he not died, the Soviet Lunar Lander, which was also already designed, would be successfully launched by a successfully modified / working N1 rocket. - Isn't it funny that the "Space Race" is considered to be the ending after the Lunar landing? It in fact continued much later on, such as the Soviets constructing Mir Space Station, the American's designing Freedom Space Station to compete against it. Soviet Mir-2 plans and US Freedom Station plans were later combined to be what today is the ISS. - If JFK wasn't assassinated, he proposed plans, which the Soviet's didn't object to, have a joint lunar landing (like Apollo-Soyuz, but would've been earlier and much more cooperative on a larger scale). - The Soviet's monitored the Apollo mission, and thus sent a Luna mission so that (thinking if they can't land a man first, at least they can..) bring back Lunar rocks first, which they did. The US and the USSR later exchanged those Lunar rocks with each other, the one's grabbed by Luna and Apollo.

In Russia you don't go to the moon, the moon goes to you.

Thanks for having us!

For all Mankind on Apple TV plus explores this alternate reality.

Apple tv + be like: WRITE THAT DOWN!

What if the Soviets Landed on the Moon First? Well, they would land on the moon first..

For those of you saying the USSR got to the moon first with their probe, that's like saying I won a race because I threw a baseball over the finish line. No man = No win.

USSR: *Launches Sputnik 1* USA: *Scared freedom noises* USSR: *Sends a man, woman, doggo and a space station* USA: *Hyperventilates in cheeseburger* USSR: *Lands on moon* USA: *Does Epstein*

“I was good at Kerbels though” Bless you

Who wants to see a video, what if the USSR never collapsed

Soviet Firsts: 1. Satellite. 2. Man in space/orbit. 3. Woman in space. 4. Photo of the far side of the moon. 5. Space walk. 6. Soft landing on the moon by a probe. 7. Lunar rover. 8. Robotic sample return mission. 9. Space station. 10. Photos from the surface of Venus. U.S. Firsts: 1. Man on the moon. 2. Space shuttle. 3. Soft landing on mars. 4. Exploration of the outer solar system. Who won?

For All Mankind: Write that down, write that down!

this video is the basis of the new apple series ''for all mankind''

so space race was a pissing contest?

But weren't the Nazis first to the moon? They definitely had the first moonbase in any case.

Apple: "Interesting video. How about we make a whole TV series based on this."

"I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life. Knowing that today is but one small step on a journey that someday will take us all to the stars."

How about this: *What if the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty did not shut down the extensive trade and exploration program they instigated in the 1400's*

"Star wars for real this time"

Your video would seem to have inspired the TV series, *For All Mankind.* I am not so certain that the Soviets reaching the Moon first would really have inspired us to greater efforts. I think it could just as easily have lead to a cancelling of the manned space program all together. If it did lead to bigger and better things though, that would not necessarily have been at the expense of the Space Shuttle. Multiple avenues might have been pursued. There could have been much more vigorous and sustained Lunar exploration, perhaps even a Lunar base. Multiple Skylab style space stations might have been launched. Multiple Skylab modules could have been docked together to form one or more much larger stations. Space Shuttles would have been very valuable in supplying such large orbiting labs, and conducting independent Earth orbital missions. We might even have gotten the originally planned fleet of ten instead of just four. I imagine there would have been a push to land on Mars as soon as possible, perhaps in the early '80s. That is, assuming we didn't just throw in the towel and give it all up.

I wonder what Cody thinks of "For All Mankind" now that it's come out and tries to answer this very question in its own way

last time I came this early, she never called me again.

I'm a lvl. 89 Mage in FREEDOM!!

Ah when Cody had energy and seemed to enjoy life

This is pretty much the plot of the series For All Mankind.

What if the soviets landed on the moon first? Hmmm.... Then there would be a video: What if the Americans landed on the moon first? Logic.

I see you're a fan of kerbal space program!

For All Mankind! You should do a follow up video

oh you mean for all mankind

Hmm it sounds like it almost would've been a good thing if the soviets landed on the moon first. Our space technology would be much better today and it might've driven NASA to attempt a Mars landing to beat the soviets instead of waiting another century to possibly land on Mars.

But what if the Kerbals made it to the moon first

For all Mankind is pretty much a tv show about this and it is wonderful.

and now this is a tv show

I know what would've happened...3 words... RUSSIAN SPACE BEARS

what if the germans landed first?

If the Soviet landed on the moon first.... " UNLEASH THE TSAR "

“I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life. Knowing that today is but one small step on a journey that someday take us all to the stars.” -Alexi Leonov, first man on the moon

Soviets won the space race.

Strangely, I think that all of humanity would have had benefitted from the Sovjets landing first on the moon. The budget of NASA would never have been cut down, instead, the efforts to also land on the moon and top the Sovjets, would have been increased. I think the US would have been able to land shortly afterwards on the moon, and top the Sovjet achievement by building a lunar base. Then the Sovjets build a bigger base. And before you can look, the moon is populated, lots of manned outposts and mining colonies by the late 70s, space tourism to the moon by the 80s. The next step: Mars. Human landing on Mars by the 90s. Colonization of Mars by the early 2000s. Technology in this timeline would be consequently waaayyyy ahead of our timeline, since all the new space technology developments would have lead to lots and lots of spin-off products in other areas, such as telecommunication, material science, etc. You woud not recognize the world of 2016 in this alternate timeline. It would be as in a sci-fi novel. But hey, instead we got facebook. Also not bad, hm? Sigh.

The TV series 'For All Mankind' explores this brilliantly.

Imagine in a alternate time line USSR:hey USA Russian just landed on the moon already USA:guess what we just landed on mars already USSR:NANI!!!

WOO WOO BACK WITH THE USA SHADES!!!

Here's a list of possible alternates 1. What if Italy was never unified? 2. What if the Watergate scandal never happened? 3. What if WWII started in Czechoslovakia? 4. What if the Ottoman Empire never fell? 5. What if Carlism became the dominant political force in Spain? P.S. Cody is there any timeline for when the winners of the contest will be announced?

For all mankind on Apple TV. That is literally the premise of the entire multiple season show.

Soviets land on the moon and immediately establish the first lunar gulag.

FUN FACTS: - John F. Kennedy proposed to the USSR, and the USSR accepted, to jointly go to the moon together. However, after his assassination, his successor then canceled the deal that was to be made on Moon Cooperation. - While the first Apollo Mission was taking place, the Soviets were like "Oh shit, we gotta get something first from the moon", so they sent Luna 15 to collect Moon Rocks. This cooperation of sharing flight paths so the Apollo 11 and Luna 15 would not crash would lead to Sharing Moon Rocks collected by Armstrong and Aldrin and Luna 15, which would eventually lead to the Apollo-Soyuz Mission. - The Soviets already had already developed a Lunar Lander and had N1 Rocket designs. The Soviet Lunar Lander flew in Near Space. However, in 1966, Sergei Korolev, the lead and chief designer of all things space-related of the USSR, died in 1966 of Cancer, thus the slight modifications required for the N1 Rocket were never mathematically solved. Korolev died with the key. The project was decided to be cancelled after Apollo 11, and continue on the next space race. - The next space race happened 1 of 2. Space Station's Race went into development. The US had Skylab after the USSR had the Salyut 1-7, Almaz, and a Military Cannon Space Station fired from Space (not making this up). Then Mir-1 was constructed as the ISS is constructed today. The US was going to compete with its "Freedom Station" project, but was cancelled as well as Mir-2 was cancelled because of the Collapse of the USSR. As a result, Space Cooperation between Russia and the US allowed the US and Russia to combine Freedom Station Designs with Mir-2 (and let other countries have a piece of the cake and join in). China was denied, which led them to them building their own Space Station, the Tiangong Project. - In 2009, on the 50 year anniversary after the launch of Sputnik-1, the Designers behind the Satellite "Came out with their Secret", saying they were mostly developing it "in the hopes for the start of a Space Race, to progress Humanity". As we all know, every single thing progresses better in competition, not cooperation. Example in the next line. - In the mid 80's, after completing Buran, the USSR was to use Mir and Buran to service Cosmonauts, and started developing a program to send a person to Mars by 1999. This of course, was cancelled due to the country ceasing to exist in 1991. What would happen if Kennedy was never assassinated and the deal with the Soviets on Joint Lunar Development proceeded? I think SpaceX would not exist and would be useless, and Space Tourism Companies would open up, instead of that being Russia's job.

The U.S would make a MARS mission land there, then go to venus, land there then go to mercury, then come back somehow.. Then they would boast.

Who's hyped for "For All Mankind" upcoming series? Anyone here?

The fact that America says “I was so good at Kerbals though” makes me very happy

What if Britain lost the Falklands War?

what if the space race didnt end after the us went to the moon and the soviets went to mars after the us went to the moon

I'm assuming the Russian moon bears would be named Desmond.

Good thing you can just watch "For all Mankind" and find out.

I died at the "But I was good at Kerbal though" part!

I'm pretty sure that the USA would ceate a moon program simply to kick down the soviet flag.

We would be on Mars by the 90's.

Make USSR great again! This time with Soviet Democracy by Trotsky-san

What if Prohibition was never a thing? WIll that affect the history of nascar since stock car racing has the roots from bootlegging runs during the prohibition era? What if cigarettes had no effect on your health? What if the dotcom bubble never burst?

Ironic that the ‘communists’ failed because of a lack of cooperation.

"How do we make things cold?!" LOL.

And now we have a TV series for this, For All Mankind.

You better believe a manned Venus mission never would have happened! Humans have absolutely no way to survive on Venus due to the atmospheric pressure and heat alone.

*Russian accent* Van Smoall step foar man, van tchiant leep foar manekiand... Blyat

Now I get where did Sony and Apple get the idea of "For All Mankind"

When I hear "Space Race" I can't help but think of a bunch of astronauts racing each other

I bet the U.S would aim to land on the sun. LOL

This channel is so unique and refreshing. Keep it up and I hope your channel grows much more.

"Sent Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon" - Cody Me: YOU FORGOT MICHAEL COLLINS

Have you seen for all mankind?

I'm just waiting for someone to say we never landed on the moon

I LOVE the way you represent the USA. Just LOVE IT.

N1 did get of the ground. One did fall back to launchpad, but three got many km away from launchpad. But still all four first stages exploded.

This video made me rethink everything

I always enjoy your videos and thoughts. Though I must say, the expressions and commentary by the little characters in your video this time did give me some good laughs. More than usual in fact. Good work and thank you. :D

How if the Buran program succeed and the Space Shuttle program failed?

4:23 nice KSP refrence there.

There were a lot more things going against the Soviets, but the biggest one you missed was the most important one: Sergei Korolev, the "chief designer". He died in 1966 because a routine surgery went awry. It went awry because they couldn't intubate him due to injuries he sustained when he was tortured in the gulags in the 1930s. He was one of the victims of the Great Purge. In fact, he was in the gulags because he was betrayed by one of his rocketry rivals, fellow Ukrainian Valentin Glushko. Not to mention their lack of resources crippled their ability to test components of rockets before assembly, which is one of the big reasons the N-1 moon rocket was such a huge failure. That's also why so many Soviet rockets failed in the 1960s. Just in the Luna program, 13 of the first 16 attempts were launch failures. When they switched from the R-7 to Proton, they had launch failures in 5 of their first 6 attempts. In the Venera program to Venus, 6 of their first 10 attempts were launch failures.

I think the U.S. would have went to Mars on a manned space mission only to find oil there beneath the surface which would have rallied the establishment into funding space colonies to help mine the oil faster. Then they would look further to other possibly inhabited planets for their oil and the cycle would just keep repeating.

What if gunpowder was never invented?

There isca show about it, it's called "For all mankind" and its the best show ever

Do a scenero where the USSR landed after the USA where did the 2 remaining N1s launched

You might find it interesting how close this was to actually happening. The N1 failed because several engines on the first stage catastrophically failed. There was nothing wrong with the design itself (except arguably the open interstage trusses). Also, in general, soviet rocketry technology was actually ahead of its time. They just didn't bother building massive engines like the F-1 used on the Saturn V because they found that clusters of smaller engines were more efficient and reliable - one engine out of 21 failing non-catastrophically means a much smaller loss of thrust than one engine out of five. You actually see a similar thing going on with SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle - the Falcon 9 has nine engines, but only really needs seven to reach orbit with a typical payload. Regarding what would happen, I'm pretty sure the next objective would either be putting a man on Mars, or establishing a permanently inhabited base on the Moon. The USSR beating the USA to the moon could have helped spur on even more technological developments throughout the world, with the USA constantly playing catch-up while the USSR continues to improve the efficiency of their own engines. Also, based on the USSR's seemingly much more casual attitude about the space race (they weren't upset about us beating them to the moon at all - they actually congratulated us.), by the time tensions between the USA and USSR finally eased they may have even been willing to help us catch up. All and all I think the Soviets had the right idea on space travel - treat it as exploration and the opportunity to learn more about the universe and not as yet another geopolitical Colosseum to posture in.

Wait wait wait... Communist Space Bears? Do I see an EnterElysium fan?

Boy do I have a show for you

2019 Nov 1st Apple TV is putting out a mini series on just this, the russians beating the usa to the moon, in an alternate reality.