"WE LANDED ON THE MOON!"  50 years ago that is.  Or did we?  From Nazis to Cosmonauts, from fruit flies to chimpanzees, from Walt Disney to JFK,  find out why it was so important for the U.S to be the first to accomplish this feat.  The History of the origins of going to the moon, with a little of the future sprinkled in.  Now on EP 36! With No Due Respect S01E36 SHOW NOTES/LINKS: 1957 Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the "space race." The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up. Belka and Strelka https://youtu.be/u4SUH9qITxE Animals in Space https://www.space.com/20648-animals-in-space-history-infographic.html#targetText=A%20July%202%2C%201959%2C%20Soviet,two%20rats%20and%20fruit%20flies. Artemis https://www.space.com/artemis-program.html Cotton on the Moon https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/robotic-exploration/china-grew-these-leaves-on-the-moon Elon Musk - Starship Presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPYUox41bU