April 12th
2011 was the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, hailed
by the Soviet Union as a triumph for socialist science over capitalism. But the
true story is much stranger.
Today on Far Future Horizons we ask
the question in: Why Didn’t The Soviet Union Put a Man on the Moon?
It’s
probably the most well-known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet
Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century.