For All Mankind: A Peek Into What Could Have Been
What if the Soviets got to the moon first?
7 min readMay 22, 2021
My first memory of the US Space program took place in August of 1977. On that late summer morning, seven-year-old me stood in front of the television watching history being made. On TV, a Boeing 747 flew over the California desert with a special passenger: the Space Shuttle Enterprise. In a few minutes’ time…