TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khruschev rejected the plan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Race#Kennedy_proposes_a_joint_US-USSR_program



Submitted March 23, 2015 at 12:25AM by garglemymarbles http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zxfm5/til_the_soviet_union_and_the_united_states_were/