It was 44 years ago today that, with the aid of specialized spacesuits, American astronauts first urinated on the moon, claiming it for the United States.* To celebrate, here's some dashcam footage from the Apollo 16 lunar rover.
While this is great, think how incredible the dashcam footage would have been if the ! There'd be some angry cosmonaut hanging on the front of the lunokhod, and there'd be all kinds of face-plate smashing punches and that sort of thing.
The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These…
Happy mooniversary, everybody!
* This may not be entirely true.