The simple fact is the United States today can’t even visit the ISS without getting technological help from Russia.
So don’t get too puffed up over something that happened almost fifty years ago.
The world pooh-poohed us when JFK said that we would go to the moon. The USSR was supposed to be SO much better at space travel. I remember it all very well. I remember all the snide remarks from people who would NOT believe that the USA could even do it.
And I WILL get puffed up about the USA landing on the moon, FIRST and three times. It was a DREAM of humanity for a long time. If one can't "puffed up" about a THREE-TIME MOON LANDING, then what CAN one be "puffed up" about? Geez, are you a wet blanket about that wonderful accomplishment or what?