An Alternate Space Race History
Staff
HistoryExtra
June 19, 2026
Two television shows – For All Mankind and Star City – imagine an alternative universe in which Soviet cosmonauts completed the first moon landing in 1969 ahead of US astronauts. But how might global history have unfolded if the space race had taken a different course, asks Matthew Trask – and could it have ensured the survival of the Soviet Union?
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