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The Soviet Union got closer to reaching the Moon than we ever suspected

The Soviet Union got closer to reaching the Moon than we ever suspectedThe United States won the Space Race decisively when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, but nobody ever really knew just how close the Soviet Union got to putting cosmonauts on the lunar surface. Now, forty years later, researcher Charles Vick says the Soviets really could have reached the Moon by the mid-seventies...if they just could have gotten their rockets under control. Check out Space.com for the full story.

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