[USNBandit]

So if the Russians had sent a manned rocket to crash on the Moon........

[WayneS]

You got it!

This Frenchman would say the U.S. was the SECOND country to land men on the moon.

[Calvin Locke]

Speaking of the Soviet space program...

The Soviets were unsure of the ability of their craft to survive a landing, so the first couple of cosmonauts were "punched out" at 20K ft on the way back down from space.