I remember I watched a documentary on this. First of all, the Soviet propaganda did not play it up or give too much information. But I don't think it had a strong popular effect. Some of them tried to ignore it, some of them were insulted. It was very similar to feeling among Americans when Gagarin went into orbit. What was the mood in the Soviet space program when astronauts from Apollo 11 landed on the moon? Actually, there was a small article on the first page of Pravda and then three columns on page five. There were small articles when Apollo 11 was launched.
The same feeling was prevalent in Russia. But if you remember when Americans spoke of the first man in space, they were always talking of "the first American in space".
Of course, you cannot have people land on the moon and just say nothing. How widely was the news of the moon landing disseminated in the Soviet Union in advance of the event? So we looked through the telescope, but we didn’t see any moon landing! So it was still questionable to us! The KGB officer had just returned from Africa, and he had brought a small telescope. It was exactly the place where they later built the nuclear power station. I was on vacation with my friends, most of whom worked at the Chelomei design bureau. Where were you when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon? (These days, Khrushchev, 74, is a fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies in Providence, R.I., where he spoke in his office, surrounded by Soviet memorabilia.) Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita's son, recently looked back and remembered what it felt like to be on the Soviet side. On July 20, 1969, that promise came true as Americans claimed victory when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, witnessed by some 500 million television viewers on Earth. would be first to send humans to the moon and return them to Earth before the end of the 1960s. Reeling from a succession of Soviet space firsts, President John F. Under premier Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union had succeeded in launching Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, and sending the first man into orbit. formed the backdrop of the Apollo program, as the two superpowers jockeyed for preeminence in space.
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