Space Race

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Welcome to the second Space Race.

You can be forgiven for experiencing deja vu.

Last time it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags.

And something else I'm getting ready to do a deep dive on is the Venusian involvement, people from Venus, helping the Germans reverse engineer as well.

It was a whole separate thing, aside from the Vril, that I've come up with in the Genesis for the Space Race book.

So I'm going to create a video on that, but...

We had two different things going on here and two different groups helping the Germans so far that I can tell.

born i didn't yeah exactly the derrick so i mean all of that what's happening i mean it was true it was a it was a real conversation they really were trying to get me in and and see if i would play ball with them and do it and i kind of just i i knew it wasn't going to happen i kind of took i took it somewhat seriously it was like that's not going to work especially if you're not paying me for one but you're definitely not the people i would trust to work for and what am i working who am i working for right so all that was a huge factor i didn't i didn't go obviously but All these things kind of line up as to why I'm taking a lot of the stuff I'm researching about my grandfather seriously.

And then this goes back to the JFK.

And like that last thing he stated, one of the last things he wanted to do, and this is probably what was the main reason they wanted to get rid of him, was he wanted to do a joint space race with Soviet Union, with the Russians.

that would basically just eliminate the need for the Cold War if we were like, well, we'll give up our intelligence so that we can do a joint space race together so that we have all information on UFOs out there so that we're not accidentally trying to kill each other basically because we thought it was the Soviets when it's a UFO, right? So he knew all that was very important and to get that taken care of and And to work together.

I mean, there's so much.

This book right here, if you haven't read it, Genesis for the Space Race by John B. Leith.

It was material from 1980.

Him and the researcher who wrote this are killed now.

I mean, there's so much.

This book right here, if you haven't read it, Genesis for the Space Race by John B. Leith, was material from the 1980s.

Um, him and the researcher who wrote this are killed now.

They were both former military, uh, former CIA, but it has a whole history of like inner earth.

I mean, there's so much.

This book right here, if you haven't read it, Genesis for the Space Race by John B. Leith, was material from the 1980s.

Um, him and the researcher who wrote this are killed now.

They were both former military, uh, former CIA, but it has a whole history of like inner earth.

I mean, there's so much.

This book right here, if you haven't read it, Genesis for the Space Race by John B. Leith.

It was material from 1980.

Him and the researcher who wrote this are killed now.

in the coordinates radioed home by the very craft now resting on the surface and that no decoration on earth can move the craft on the moon a single meter north but silence in science does not mean the story ends because this story from beginning to end was never about rock it is about what human beings place upon rock flags names latitudes and three little words for the first time In the history of space exploration, the phrase for the first time has never been worth so much, and it has never been so easy to dispute.

Just flip back to the opening pages of the Space Race.

In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, humanity's first satellite, and the Western world felt the shock like an air-raid siren.

America's Replier was not a second satellite.

But the Soviet Union got there first with Yuri Gagarin in April 1961.

America picked a higher rum again, the first American in orbit John Glenn 1962, and finally poured everything into the one thing the Soviet Union had not done.

human beings setting foot on the moon when armstrong stepped onto the sea of tranquillity in july nineteen sixty nine it was not merely an engineering miracle it was a move in a political game in which each side kept jumping to a new category in order to say for the first time the soviet answer came in firsts of its own the first simultaneous flight the first woman in space volantina tereshkova nineteen sixty three then the first space station it should surprise no one that rivals redefine categories to claim a first or to deny a rival's first that game is as old as the space race itself and as the twenty-first century race shifted from two superpowers to many from crewed flights to robots the categories shifted too first nation to land on the lunar far side china change for twenty nineteen first nation to land near the south pole india chandrayan three twenty twenty three among the long list of empty firsts the lunar south pole is one of the biggest squares and like every big square it sits directly in the line of fire But the Moon, unlike Antarctica on Earth, has a special shield.

The Outer Space Treaty, signed in 1967, forbidding any nation from claiming sovereignty over the lunar surface.