What happens if the United States to the Moon of the Soviet Union had defeated?

11 April 2011 last updated at 23: 09 GMT by Pallab Ghosh science correspondent, BBC News how history would have developed if a flag was planted with a star instead of 50 on the Moon? The Americans won the race to the Moon Neil Armstrong on the Moon in 1969 foot.

The Uniform Act trumped the Soviet achieving eight years before the first man in space to send. But what might happened, when the Soviet Union to the moon first?

The first manned moon landing was a triumph for the NASA also the death warrant, and if the Americans the space race won, they sounded.

The Apollo lunar program continued until 1972 and built 12 astronauts on the lunar surface. But US television networks quickly bored with the moon landings. If politicians lost interest, the Apollo program was scrapped.

Of course, we are not back since. Instead has human exploration of space was limited to low Earth orbit.

Piers Bizony, who a biography of Gagarin called Starman co-written, says: "the Russians were in action the conquer space..." "The Americans felt they were in a race and the nature of a race is, that if you think that you have won it you to cancel."

The Soviets to the moon had got together first, it is unlikely that she it so quickly would abandoned as the Americans.

Not in a democracy which may be enabled spend the USSR to the money and the talents of the population in a way that America could not Marshal.

Space is of the opinion that not only the Soviet Union with lunar missions would have continued, but also lunar could have built bases historian Dr. Christopher Riley.

And he believes, that the Americans were forced would have, do the same and even try, continue to outdo their Communist rivals.

He says "The story that followed in the decades after would have been very different,".

Summer of ' 69

In the summer of 1969, as the Apollo 11 crew on the way to the Moon, U.S. Vice President were, said Spiro Agnew, America on Mars 1980 would be. At the time this was considered a relatively feasible goal given how fast things was more advanced in the 1960s.

"she certainly had it in their heads and their drawing boards and designs of the methods to get, which may have been set in action in response to a Soviet landing on the moon to Mars were", says Dr. Riley.

The United States seems to have taken a lead when it launched Apollo 8 in Lunar

Alternative reality so how close we were after this?

In the vicinity, according to piers Bizony: "who imagine Apollo had the Moon race to itself are wrong," he says.

The lead seemed the United States in 1968 have taken over if it increases successfully three astronauts in Lunar with its mission of Apollo 8.

But the Americans rushed ahead with this mission, because they are afraid, that they again beat the Soviet Union before and drag them from another room coup.

The USSR was named using a rocket the Proton today is still in use. The Soviets were to put a Soviet Cosmonaut in a so-called hard flight around the Moon and straight home again would take it that send without going into orbit payloads into space.

She flew a few months before Apollo 8 a unmanned mission, which had taken over just such a guiding curve to Moon.

The Soviets had lunar built Lander also their own moon rocket (known as N-1) and their own.

Winning streak

Just as the Americans win?

The first seeds were sown by President Eisenhower after the launch of first satellite of the Soviet Union in 1957.

The Soviet Union developed its own moon rocket, but it proved as a spectacular failure tests during startup

The launch of Sputnik 1 generated anxiety about the US and one quiet realization that the country had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically.

President Dwight Eisenhower's answer was increased funding for education, to increase the academic standard of universities in America.

Dr. Riley comments: "increase the brainpower you would need this technological exploits to take the Russians and win away."

Eisenhower order the Saturn V rockets, in particular to multi-tonne to launch satellites for the espionage. Inherited as President Kennedy in the White House and had to respond to Gagarin's flight, the Saturn V but was already in development.

It was the Saturn V rocket, which send astronauts to the Moon the United States enabled.

The early Soviet Union triumphs were managed and controlled by Korolev the man, who built the R7 rocket, launched the Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into orbit.

Lost to Korolev's death in 1966, of the Soviet Union cost focus.

Because he was not there to assert his authority, there was not a Soviet attempt to reach the Moon, but several competing systems, to reach the moon.

Computing performance

According to piers Bizony, systems of rival sucked resources from each other: "there was much confusion make every effort in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and therefore they do not have the technology to send a man to the Moon" he says.

Still, they have the computing power. By today's standards the Apollo 11 onboard computer was quite crude, but it was ahead of its time and was crucial to America's successful moon landings.

Crude computer were crucial to the success of the US moon landings

The first could be alternative reality on the Moon in this, remains to be seen. Yuri Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968 and so would not available for all Soviet Moon shot. In any case, he was too much of national cultural heritage have been sent to such a risky mission.

However, when Korolev had lived a little longer and Soviet had stolen us spies computer technology, then the Moon could well have been colonised and were a basis for international manned missions to Mars and - perhaps - in addition.

50 Years after Gagarin's historic flight, the Russians are again the planet exceptional space faring nation. This year will retire to his only craft able send astronauts into space shuttle fleet, the United States of their space.

According to Mr Bizony: "America has no clear idea of what will replace the shuttle and no clear idea, whether as a nation are really committed to the manned space adventure."

"Now is Russia American astronauts and the Board of the Soyuz capsule will fly from other countries." "And that Soyuz with a rocket in its essential structure very similar to, which raises launched Yuri Gagarin."

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