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| - The Fascists, now bitter and determined, launched the Moon Impaktor from Siberia. It took about a week to reach the moon and then it impacted with the surface and destroyed the machine but did make the Fascist have an incredible jump in the Space Race as they were the first to actually make a man-made object touch the moon. Embarrassed from the defeat, the Confederates one-upped the Fascists and launched a Lunar Impaktor with a turtle inside of it. It successfully slowed down enough before impact to not crush the turtle and it lived for three days before the turtle died when the air ran out and it died in a coma-like state. This also caused the Confederates to have an incredible jump as no they've landed the first living thing on the moon. Now the race turned into a one-up show as the Fascist circled a monkey from Indochina around the moon before successfully landing it on there where it died after its oxygen ran out. The Confederates then landed two dogs on the moon, the Fascists 14 rats, the Confederates three monkeys (captured from an unknown source), then the Fascists launched a man... The man's name was Alfred von Himmler, a cousin three times removed from Himmler himself. He successfully orbited the moon three times before attempting to land. His ship on the way down malfunctioned and the ship's engines burst into flame and the ship exploded on the approach instantly killing Alfred and spreading his remains all throughout the cosmos as it is estimated that they left the gravitational sphere of the Earth-Moon system and possibly the Sun's. The Confederates immediately took this opportunity and launched the Libertad on August 12, 1951 it orbited the Moon twice before setting down on the surface of the moon. Niel Armstrong stepped out of the lander and uttered the words "This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.". He was quickly followed by Muhammed O'Donald, an Irish-Arab. They both explored outside of the cockpit for a little while before unrolling a Confederate flag and placing it on the moon. Man had taken the next great leap in exploration.
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