Because the first human to survive a launch into space is not really meaningful in the grand sense. It’s not like there’s a huge national celebration of John Glenn either. Landing live humans on the moon? Yeah that’s a big freaking deal.
Not only landing them there but bringing them home safely.
“Because the first human to survive a launch into space is not really meaningful in the grand sense. It’s not like there’s a huge national celebration of John Glenn either. Landing live humans on the moon? Yeah that’s a big freaking deal.”
Without that first survivable launch, there would not have been a moon landing. Hell, it motivated the heck out of our guys! Knowing it CAN be done is half the battle! And if THEY can do it, we SURE CAN!
I guess you don’t understand. Do some research. The Russian flights were significant and their men worthy of note.