“We had a little help ;)”
In the 40’s and 50’s perhaps. I haven’t seen alot of German martian and moon landers lately and they have a few more German scientists than we do.
The Germans never got an A-bomb, either.
But, I detected a few Canadian accents on the Science Channel interviews with the scientific team.
These things have always had a strong international component, because the best gravitate to the American space/exploration programs.
And don’t forget the 60’s and 70’s.
We wouldn’t have reached the moon without them.