First nation to land on the south pole of the moon? Not the US, not Russia, not China. India. If you don't get why this is a big deal you don't. understand the modern space race.
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Who wants to guess where I learned to 'understand the modern space race'? Not from government, not from school, not from the media. Yup, from a Redneck Hippie Duck Farmer.
Before that I thought helium3 was thought up by Duncan Jones for the movie Moon (Which is AMAZING if you haven't seen it yet!).