What if the Soviets Landed on the Moon First?
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- Опубликовано: 29 фев 2016
- The United States sent men to the moon in 1969. But what if in an alternate timeline, the Soviet Union beat them to the punch? Here is one scenario.
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"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."
Mikosch2 LISTEN CAREFULLY
IM NOT YOUR PUPPET MR PRESIDENT, WE COMMIEZ HAVE LEGACY TO CONDIDER
Severely underrated comment.
"We can't Mr. President!"
"Why not?"
"Pepsi got to the Soviets first."
Hhahahahahaa
Best comment ever
In Soviet Russia. The moon lands on you.
+starwarsstudio100 The moon is always trying to fall on us but we keep dodging.
Heheh what a funny com-
starwarsstudio100 pl0x no
starwarsstudio100 we would be dead.
Jill's Sandwiches boi
What if The U.K. got to The Moon first, and made it a new colony of The British Empire?
well firstly we would be even more bankrupt at that point and everyone would go hungry so not the best outcome tbh.
Hey, I've seen this one!
The thing is the British could of won the space race , (blue streak rocket) the British had the most advanced space
Technology and could of put a man on the moon many years before the USA and ussr were even close , however due to bankruptcy it was between space or nukes and the country needed nukes to ensure protection
Family Gash not to toot my own horn, but I’m actually writing a story all about a situation similar to this. It’s called Nebula, and it is a space race answer to fallout game series. In this world, America decides not to go to The movie alone [would be too expensive for just one country, and communism is everyone’s problem], instead of deciding to appeal to the United Nations to pull together their resources for NASA. As a result, they are not only able to put Americans on the moon, but could use the extra funding to do as many things with space Age technology as possible. As the free nations of the world become more and more invested in the science of utilizing out of space for humanities survival, a large, intrepid, and ethnically diverse series of space stations are launched into space to find new planets to inhabit [although most of the stations were used by psychiatrists to experiment on how humanity could evolve as an interplanetary species. I.e. what would happen if one person had absolute power every year at random. How would these people abuse that power?]. In an unfortunate twist of fate, irate middle Eastern kingdoms take revenge on both sides of the cold war by nuking every capital they could afford to blow up[Both sides have been exploiting these countries for their oil deposits for rocket fuel. Eventually they lost their patience and declare jihad]. As the last space station leaves the planet earth in search of new planets to colonize, the astronauts have to look on in horror as they lose all connections to the planet earth. The game is set roughly 2000 years after earth has been all but forgotten, and you must deal with the new interplanetary empires and societies that have popped up in earths absence. Will you choose order, or chaos? How far are you willing to go to survive in this brave new world where the sky is not the limit? At home or far away, human nature is still human nature.
There was a comic book based on this, starting from the end of WW2 and Britan getting their hands on most german rocket tech.
- Mr. President, Soviets landed on the Moon!
- Prepeare mission to the Sun then!
- But we'll burne!
- Nope! You fly at night.
YOU FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flawless
But the sun only appears at day, it doesnt turn into the moon at night! We are orbit--
*_Stupid._*
Bananappleboy World okay u obviously don't get the joke. Don't go calling people stupid cause you didn't understand what they were saying.
I have crabs help Im pretty sure he was joking too.
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.
lol
Did you hear that Gromit? They own the cheese!
kek
+Dan Soviet cheese for the ideal worker!
+Dan And there is never a skiing robot on the moon as Skiing is for decadent capitalists
_BREAKING NEWS! FIRST WORDS FROM MAN ON VENUS_
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
_BREAKING NEWS! FIRST MAN ON VENUS HAS DIED!_
LOL!
LOL
Venus killed murrican, bomb venus immediately... ekhm... Give Venus democracy immediately!
If aliens are found there will be vegans saying
ALIENS ARE PEOPLE TWO
ALIEN RIGHTS ACTS
+ZakDoesGaming ALIEN LIVES MATTER
"I was so good at Kerbal though..."
Perfect comment
Me too
Ahem. We are STRICTLY an Orbiter shop.
relatable
Have you seen the Russian rocket? It’s literally the most kerbal rocket ever made. More boosters, more fuel tanks, and many more explosions.
Fun fact: A sputnik is satellite in Russian. In other words, we call satellites "Sputniks" because we were first.
The Melon He is from Russia...
@The Melon Don't worry, not everyone has English as their native language. It just happen
Someone on the internet ну вообще вроде понятие «спутник» появилось гораздо раньше.
Wierd flex but ok
Did Sputnik get bright back ?
But North Korea landed a man on the sun so they won the space race
nope not gonna give you any attention
Actually they never claimed such an accomplishment.
Trump will be happy ?
dum
+Chillinger what's the difference?
I love the part where the american is like "Did you use commie witchcraft".
same:)
Who, me?
Shhhhhh they don't need to know
"Star Wars for real this time"
+Atticus Khalif I'm a level 89 Freedom Mage.
The N1 got off the ground. The problem is it kept coming back down.
The Saturn V was built simple. 5 F1 engines in the first stage, 5 J1's in the second stage, and 1 J1 in the third stage.
The Soviets decided to built the N1 the Kerbal way, and put 30 engines in their first stage. Then 8 in the second, and 4 in the third. Yes the N1 did get off the ground, but that kind of complexity was a time bomb. There were far too many things that could have gone wrong, and that did go wrong. Combustion instabilities, G shocks and that kind of thing. Had Sergei Korolev lived longer, who knows. Maybe the Soviets would have made it to the Moon even after the Americans, and we'd have an international Moon base now instead of the ISS.
@@Doctor699 SpaceX Starship: *Laughs in over 37 engines*
@@Doctor699 The N1 had thirty engines *because* there were too many. If an engine failed, the flight computer simply shut down the engine on the opposite side to compensate for the torque and the thing could finish a mission with two or even three failed engines.
@Doctor_9 yes, they couldn't test it properly with all engines at once. Also the designer was an aircraft engine designer and not a rocket expert like korolev.
It got cold feet.
"I'm a Level 89 Mage in Freedom"
~America, 1969
WE are a level 69 in best system, communism.
51 years later: MY POWERS HAVE SURPASSED ALL
America in 3024854479638425895957654464668743554 AD, when it is a level 9999999999999999999999999999999 mage in freedom:
Laughs in Futuristic Freedom
Funny how its 69
@@elcompagenito3250 fuck you
"I was so good at Kerbels though."
4:24 hahahahahaha
lets go jebediah
And simple rockets
Austria, you were too ethnically diverse to stand.
@@mr.mister3244 spaceflight simulator 1.4
What will the Soviets say though like a cool quote
"that's one small step for *US* but a giant leap for *OUR* Union"
Probably would have been talking about Lenin and the Union and all that. "If only Lenin could see us now. That's one tiny step for comrade cosmonaut, one giant leap for Soviet people." But it would have been Alexei Leonov on the lunar surface, so he might have done something artistic with words and said something very profound and wonderful.
"When lennin founded this union, we were a agricultural nation. Generations later, lenni's legacy has borught us to the stars*
@@Osgfkqgvsu да товарищ
@@elcompagenito3250 heart touching quote ❤😥
I like the quote that For All Mankind used:
"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."
- Alexei Leonov
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
@Milosz Vasily or blow up in orbit.
and so the earth would be made pure. :p
I am going to the ONE place not corrupted by capitalism! *SPHESS!**
Theres judt gonna be a giant see next to Poland
Fly us to the moon - It reminded me of Evangelion
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.
Ukraine War Awareness ummm bud Luna 15 was their mission to bring back rocks before Apollo and it crashed landed in the moon they didn’t bring back rocks first
Thanks for the essay
This is very fascinating!
if JFK wasnt assasinated, USA might have much better relations with today's Russia. still to this day Americans have the attitude "Russians = bad".
when i look at history, JFK's policies were really smart, and trying to fix the relations between USSR and USA.
Also im glad that cold war became a space race, not a nuclear one.
wojtekpolska minus the horrible civil wars in former colonies but yeah.
In Russia you don't go to the moon, the moon goes to you.
yes
in russia they dont have racists.
Jana Cegar first off, its a meme don't take it seriuosly, second off, russia isnt a race.
Also in Russia, you don't watch the tv, tv watches you
I have never seen such a beautiful in Russia joke.
Who wants to see a video, what if the USSR never collapsed
Fallout
Oh wait, that's right. My bad!
+Rebel Blaster
Two words:
FALL
OUT
Casual shenanigans True but originally they were at war with the USSR
Me
Apple tv + be like:
WRITE THAT DOWN!
For all Mankind on Apple TV plus explores this alternate reality.
Just found out about it a day or so ago, binged Season 1. I *"can't wait"* for Season 2. Especially after the post-credits scene. Sea Dragon...
Wonder if they were influenced by this video
@@baconatoromg6062 this video said america would eventually land on the moon but much more slowly. For all mankind, they landed what? a week later? lol
SloneStudios
The USSR landed a couple weeks before Apollo 11 was scheduled to land, so I don’t find it terribly unrealistic that Apollo 11 followed so closely.
That was an excellent series, does anyone know if there will be a season 2?
Thanks for having us!
you sent me here! Im subbed to this channel now too, thanks!
+Life Noggin It was fun!
+AlternateHistoryHub Awesome video as always Cody
+Life Noggin Lol Blocko I have your video in another tab, before I watched the outro :). I am going to view it now :)
ermahgerd life noggin
What if the Soviets Landed on the Moon First? Well, they would land on the moon first..
true
Fucking logic
yup
Or nuke everybody
+Straw117 In Soviet Union you don't land on moon, moon lands on you.
For All Mankind: Write that down, write that down!
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*
himself
Nice
Just imagine collapsing after only 70 years of your country’s history
USSR: Launches Sputnik 1
USA: Scared for so called "freedom" but really for Capitalism so they need to compete
Soviets: Sends a man, a woman and a dog
US: "Oh shit we gotta hurry and beat the Russians to the moon"
Russians: Land on the moon and plant the Red banner or the Russian flag on the moons surface in 1967 (maybe if Sergei Korolev was still alive)- may 1969 or later
Americans: "MOTHERFUCKER!"
Matthew Tuckman
Ah yes, the USSR is so very free compared to the USA.
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*
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.
Preach.
Are you the same guy from ba start gaming.?
Yep.
+Devon™ Ziegler - Sputnik was a joke accomplishment, as it only maintained an geocentric low Earth orbit for 3 months and emitted broadcast radio pulses from its four external radio antennae for 21 days. If America wanted to only do this, we would have done so much earlier.
Explorer 1 science the shit out of that shinny craptraction, maintaining a geocentric Earth orbit, not a low Earth orbit, first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returned data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months, and continued to remained in orbit until 1970. America didn't need to play the first game.
NASA dropped the mic on those sorry Soviets...
+Devon™ Ziegler You're absolutely right. The challenges of keeping people alive in space are incredibly difficult, as is the task of the return trip. You have to do insane mathematical equations concerning speed, fuel, how fast you land, the logistics of getting supplies into orbit, and many other difficult tasks in order to get a successful round trip to the moon.
“I was good at Kerbels though”
Bless you
Apple: "Interesting video. How about we make a whole TV series based on this."
last time I came this early, she never called me again.
Funny and Original
stop
+Facefish a combo I'm actually quite impressed!
lol
lmaooo
so space race was a pissing contest?
Pretty much yeah
That's why it's called a RACE
+David Unskarred You have to agree it was better then the alternative. Hell there's an alternate history for you. What if the U.S. and Soviet union had focused solely on scientific one upmanship, instead of threatening to go to war and take everything elts with them.
The entire Cold War was a pissing contest.
The entire Cold War was a pissing contest. Where did you go to school?
"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."
this video is the basis of the new apple series ''for all mankind''
Wonder if the show was influenced by this video
Shhh dont tell him
I see you're a fan of kerbal space program!
Lol
Dont laugh at my comment ;-;
Lol
Oranges.
Glory to Arstozka
But weren't the Nazis first to the moon? They definitely had the first moonbase in any case.
lol
+Carolus Rex Actually the ancient finnish empire around 8000bc colonized the entire solar system
trolling?
Someone's been play Wolfenstein The New Order haven't they :)
+Philip Czech Stuttgart fan?
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 would not say this video is the inspiration for the show at all; it is a commonly talked about point where the aerospace and alternate history subjects overlap.
Oh, and the sea dragon comes to fruition.
Ah when Cody had energy and seemed to enjoy life
"Star wars for real this time"
I laughed so much at this one
I'm a lvl. 89 Mage in FREEDOM!!
Joseph Baker Ohhh look we have a badass here XD
the soviet union is level -10000000
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
This is pretty much the plot of the series 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.
+Generalkidd Not a century, seventy years. Our current plan is to get there by 2030.
+M.O.P. 3000 Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
NASA got a billion dollars more in it's budget this year than they asked for. They've had a manned Mars mission on the back burner for years now, and long ago figured out exactly what they need to be able to go. So now they can launch a targeted research program into just the kind of technologies that they need, and really get the ball rolling.
+M.O.P. 3000 Money really doesn't make a difference. At our current technology it takes MONTHS to get to Mars. Then you have the problem of how to get that much food on the rocket, not even considering the fuel and other supplies needed. Also, how are you gonna protect the astronauts from the levels of radiation they'll be exposed to? We MIGHT get to Mars as humans, but certainly not by 2030.
@@obsolete_turtle622 Please review your comment.
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.
You just blew my fucking mind
Mind=blown
The Cosmanauts would have said "The Two headed eagle has landed". and then I would have wrote this comment, from America but in reverse.
mind blown
STFU
For All Mankind! You should do a follow up video
oh you mean for all mankind
I know what would've happened...3 words... RUSSIAN SPACE BEARS
GRRR!
But in space, no one can hear their GRRRs
Ryan Nik 2 words... OUR MOON
Thats some good
*VODKA*
But what if the Kerbals made it to the moon first
Mün*
@Fallout cat astronauts from ksp
and now this is a tv show
Kevin Vandy it is?
@@kaelanirevyruun1676 it's called For All Mankind
“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
"Holy shit, I am on TV" -Molly Cobb, first american woman on the moon, Apollo 15
@@dragoninthewest1 Hi Bob
Hi bob
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?
+Muammar Gibran What anime is your profile pic?
Only Russian Gam3r nichijou
Muammar Gibran Thanks :3
+Only Russian Gam3r Perfect question. Lol
LordVader1094 WHAT IF MEMES WHERE NEVER INVENTED?!1!!1!!!!!!!1!!1!1??/??????????1!!1!!
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?
That's actually a good point. But as revolutionary and numerous as the soviet accomplishments were, they became common practice (minus pictures of Venus). No other country has successfully landed a man on the moon, created and used a manned space shuttle, and explored the outer solar system and outside it. Now other counties have done a soft landing on mars, but that's not really common.
eggaweb soviets +they would probably have gone to the moon first if thear chief designer had not died in 1966
+eggaweb the spaceshuttle was more a fail than something else
+Preston Horowitz m France has a telescope: corot who can see planets in other solar systems
You forgot first animal in space. Poor Laika. :(
If the Soviet landed on the moon first....
" UNLEASH THE TSAR "
For all Mankind is pretty much a tv show about this and it is wonderful.
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.
You basically summed up For All Mankind
@@gamingwithalexander6030 yup. He did.
The Facebook comment aged like milk
@@AG-AG elaborate
man you just described the premise of a show years before it came out
WOO WOO BACK WITH THE USA SHADES!!!
+unknown? ...
+unknown? LOL, what was that for?
+davetu15 An on-going joke that all representation of America wear aviator shades/glasses, which have become known as the "USA shades"
+Biz Nasty Cody should make shirts with all the country people
+Biz Nasty I feel the need. The need for glassess
For all mankind on Apple TV. That is literally the premise of the entire multiple season show.
I was about to say that
Soviets land on the moon and immediately establish the first lunar gulag.
@Cross Van Dust Bet that MacDonald's will be the first fast food restaurant in space
Gotta send em Capitalist Aliens to the Gulag
what if the germans landed first?
Nazis moon base
All of Europe will be under the control of the nazis
talking about nazi Germany or the GDR?
Iron sky
The Catnat yes?
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?
As a Czech I'm quite interested while it is true that the war in Europe started in Czechoslovakia and ended in the same country it is still interesting to see if Chamberlain wasn't a fucking coward and a traitor and actually stood up for my country. I think I have a better scenario: What if Czechoslovakia invaded the Weimar Republic when it was weak and pathetic? We had the number advantage over the Germans at the time. We had a massive chance of winning. The Entente would probably appreciate it.
When I hear "Space Race" I can't help but think of a bunch of astronauts racing each other
We would be on Mars by the 90's.
I see you're watching For All Mankind season 3 too
@@dragoninthewest1 Yes comrade.
What if Britain lost the Falklands War?
+unknown? Did Argentina occupy the Falklands while I wasn't paying attention?
+1Plus1EqualShutTheFuckUp Bet you everyone on the island would just move to the UK. The people there held a vote and said they preferred British rule.
A few pointless island would belong to Argentina
Nobody would care
Britain would have nuked Buenos Aires.
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.
can you make your comment a little longer.........
Interesting facts.
The fact that America says “I was so good at Kerbals though” makes me very happy
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!!!
USSR: Ah, but I got a colony on the Moon and on Mars.
USA: Bruh how do you think we would keep our man on mars alive without a colony?
USSR: ...
British Empire: Their secret Pluto colony is discovered by the USA and the USSR.
Space Race Winner: British Empire
North Korea: But I got to another star system first
Everyone else: I QUIT
Random kid who lives in his mother's basment: *hides intergalactic empire behind back*
*Russian accent* Van Smoall step foar man, van tchiant leep foar manekiand...
Blyat
Is good tovarisch
"Slavs in Space" Coming to theaters July 2020
I'm pretty sure that the USA would ceate a moon program simply to kick down the soviet flag.
Yeah merica is a Lv. 100 FREEDOM MAGE
I'm assuming the Russian moon bears would be named Desmond.
"How do we make things cold?!" LOL.
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
Soviets on Mars...well then i guess it would not be called the red planet for nothing.
The Soviets did come up with plans for that, but it was never a very serious possibility. One was named "Aelita"
dood... thats good
Doom: Red Menace
I'd love to see soviet cosmonauts screaming cheeki breeki iv damke while shooting at Demons xD
I mean it it didn't end with the moon landing...
I died at the "But I was good at Kerbal though" part!
Who's hyped for "For All Mankind" upcoming series? Anyone here?
So far so good!
Ended watching FAM this week, great show! Waiting for 2nd season...
Yea, it got a lot of dislikes from a lot of the Android fan bois I guess. Decent show though
And now we have a TV series for this, For All Mankind.
For All Mankind brought me here. But this video predates the show.
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.
Exactly
Lol if russia went to moon first it would go to other planets first as well. Because the americans would have lost their pride and they would be slower
Technically, you can land on Mercury or Venus, but they would surely fry your or burn you with acid, to death. You can also technically land on Jupiter core, and all the gas giants cores, though you would burn if no suffocate. But still you can!
Yep success by U.S standards.
Lol I would love for them to go to venus only to find out they landed in a wasteland choked with CO2 and covered with lava. There would be no return from that.
Ironic that the ‘communists’ failed because of a lack of cooperation.
It's not really a joke, it's just badly executed by those saying they are Communists.
Communism is less of a joke and more of a failed ideology that's proven time and again that it doesn't work.
Now I get where did Sony and Apple get the idea of "For All Mankind"
Make USSR great again!
This time with Soviet Democracy by Trotsky-san
I don't even know joking you or not
Antifa dreams I guess
All power to the councils. Workers of all countries unite.
There are a lot of Communism style, but I’ll think i go with Anarcho Communist.
Uuuuurrrrraaaaaaa
Soviets won the space race.
+unknown? Are you sure?
+unknown? Russians where in space earlier
not the moon race though :P
They landed on the moon first but the astronauts died so they covered it up
While American was busy putting a man on the moon, the USSR was busy putting drones on Venus and creating satellites.
I bet the U.S would aim to land on the sun. LOL
Or jupiter
It's funny how you think the U.S. is that stupid, yet, we've landed a rover on Mars, and have sent two probes that have taken pictures of Pluto, and are about to leave the Solar System.
Wherever you are from, what have you done?
+Multi Colored Psychopath CAN YOU UNDERSTAND JOKES?! THIS IS A JOKE! NOT A REAL THING AND YOU ARE STUPID CAUSE YOU SAID SOMEONE STUPID. I HAVE SEEN YOUR CHANNEL, ALL ABOIT SEROUS BUSINESS. YOU NEVER LAUGH OR DO COMEDY. SO STUPID.
Tan Llewell
Wow, the amount of caps you used makes me thing you're a twelve year old who plays CoD all the time. Just because I never laugh or do comedy doesn't mean I'm stupid, it just means I don't have a sense of humor. I get jokes, but this joke was no where near funny, and it was rather annoying to see in the comment sections.
Also, why are you stalking me?
Edit: After you stalked me, I decided to counter-stalk you. It turns out you ARE around twelve years old, with a plane collection, and a comment saying "After September 2016, I might do a Minecraft Let's Play." I'm not sure if it's a joke, but either way, you're way too young to be on the internet.
Multi Colored Psychopath Wow, how did you guess I am 12? Also, I don't play CoD. I don't know this game. Yes, I have a plane collection, I am really going to do a Minecraft Let's Play after September if I get good grades on my annual test.
The TV series 'For All Mankind' explores this brilliantly.
"Sent Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon" - Cody
Me: YOU FORGOT MICHAEL COLLINS
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.
Yep can't walk on the surface of Venus but you could easily live in blimps high up. Blimps make living there easy, your still basically in a space ship. This and Venus being a lot closer than Mars it could have actually seen colonization in the 1990's if the space race continued.
Caden Rolland
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I don't know about calling that "easy," but it's a hypothetical possibility. There's the matter of delivering personnel and supplies across that great distance, and that includes windows of opportunity due to Venus moving toward and away from us as it orbits the sun. That leaves the hazards of travel beyond earth orbit, something far from "easy" even today, let alone in the 90s, due to radiation and engineering hurdles to move people across that vast distance safely. Better be very careful upon arrival, too, since there's absolutely no option to land on the planet in case of an emergency.
A manned Venus mission does not mean landing upon its surface. In fact, an Manned Venus Flyby mission was one of NASA's proposals for continued use of Apollo hardware beyond Lunar Landings.
The launch would still take place on a Saturn V, but the difference is, instead of housing a landing module between the Apollo CSM and the S4B stage, there would be a docking node at the nose of the S4B. After the boost out of Earth's orbit, all excess fuel within the S4B would be vented. Possibly some kind of water-assisted "wash" afterward. Once the tanks were completely purged, they would serve has habitable workspace and living area for the crew, who would enter from the docking node (which the CSM would separate from, maneuver around and dock with, just as they would a Lunar Module). This is what was known as a "wet workshop", and was also the basis behind what would become Skylab.
The combined CSM and S4B workshop would continue to Venus where they would make visual and scientific observations of the planet, but not park into Venus orbit. Instead its flyby path would itself become a slingshot maneuver to bring the Apollo workshop back toward Earth. Only when on the final approach to Earth would the CSM separate from the workshop, and use the SBS engine to either enter Earth orbit, or slow their approach to a safe re-entry.
This plan was scrapped, along with numerous NASA plans beyond Apollo by Congress. The Shuttle almost met the same fate, but passed Congress by a single vote, and only on the condition that it be enlarged to meet requirements for Department of Defense payloads, and potentially be used to capture Soviet satellites (thankfully this did not happen).
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But there definitely wouldn't be much point in sending humans to another planet if not to land and stay long-term, though. It would be a lot more expensive than sending unmanned vehicles, and now such vehicles can accomplish a lot through automation and remote control. Apollo kind of made sense at the time, although in hindsight it would have been far wiser to wait and send unmanned missions instead. We could have returned samples and deposited retroreflectors and all of that without putting human lives at risk and spending all of that extra money.
Eric Wood
That was the Soviet Union's original idea and reasoning.
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
Good thing you can just watch "For all Mankind" and find out.
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.
Go watch For All Mankind because the major point of divergence for the shows timeline from ours is that korolev survives his surgery, but still due to state security is never made known to the West even as late as '83.
There's a scene were he, somewhat sadly, says to a American astronaut " who am I? I am just Chief Designer."
I'm just waiting for someone to say we never landed on the moon
We didn't. Some american old dudes did tho
This channel is so unique and refreshing. Keep it up and I hope your channel grows much more.
The Soviet Union did land on the moon first, just, not with Human Beings.
This video made me rethink everything
America would have been like "Fuck it were going to Mars!"
I LOVE the way you represent the USA. Just LOVE IT.
What do you mean
the shades
Better dead than red!
@Crowd Hoot Dude, J-Just, no...don't go to that point...
It's based on countryballs
Have you seen for all mankind?
Good stuff
In the end i think you nailed it. If the soviets landed first the space race would have continued and to be honest we would probably be living in a better world where we focused more on the stars and less on killing each other. Plus once the space race ended the arms race sped up up like crazy imagine if all the money reagan and the ruskis spent on nukes was instead spent on science... Yuuno... i wish they had gotten their first lol
You would be doing a video about "What if the Americans landed on the moon first"?
Spicy meme.
"star wars for real this time" has me cracking up
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.
"commie witchcraft" XD
"I'm a level 89 Mage in Freedom", this'll make a good senior quote lol
Do a scenero where the USSR landed after the USA where did the 2 remaining N1s launched
I kinda wish the Soviets had beaten the US to the moon (coming from a US citizen) Like you said it would have likely spurred even more technological and scientific advances, likely globally. At least as long as the Cold War belligerents all agreed to the non-weaponization of space.
Space race V2 with China