The Space Race was a lie.

Look, it's not that the moon landing was faked.  It happened.  Neil hates the conspiracy theories.  The lie is that we ever wanted to go to the moon.  We needed a spectacle to show the people.  To justify the massive budgets.  The agencies.

Neil stepped on a rock 239,000 miles from Earth.  Big deal.  I stepped on an Exoplanet circling Ursae Majoris 18 months earlier.  It's a one-way trip - so there ain't any going home.  No ticker tape parade for me, but that's ok.  I'm here for my country.

See, the Russians beat us here by a few months.  Japanese showed up a few weeks after us.  We'll colonize this planet for America.  Because there isn't a choice....