Alternate First Men on the Moon thread

Thande

Thande

Donor
Alright, the 'different flag on moon' is probably the most photoshopped AH picture, but how about some background to it?

In this thread, suggest alternative moon landings by this format:

Name of the first man on the Moon:

Country who put him there:

Name of spacecraft:

His first words:

The year:

e.g., in OTL it would be
Neil Armstrong

United States of America

Eagle

"It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

1969.
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The POD can be before 1900 if it's something like 'the Romans have an industrial revolution with Heron's steam engine etc' but I put it here because the actual event is most likely to be in the 20th century.

Go!
 
MrP

MrP

Banned
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

Republic of India

Bharat 4

In the name of peace and with hope for mankind, we have made this journey for all people.

1958
 

Major Major

Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Zond 11

"The peoples of the world hail the triumph of socialist science and engineering."

1970
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Max Sinister said:
Remember the Louis Armstrong TL from the Old Board?
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Yeah, that's what inspired me. I was going to do a "Mike Collins first man on the moon - no, not that one, the Irish rebel leader" thread, but decided this would be more interesting ;)
 

Tyr

Name of the first man on the Moon: Seamus Canty

Country who put him there: Ireland

Name of spacecraft: Morris Minor

His first words: ...err 'scuse me there but would any 'o you lads be knowing the way to Mayo?...'ello?

The year: 1968
 

alt_historian

John Dashwood

United Kingdom

Victoria

"I claim this territory for her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, and for the British Empire. This is not the end of our mission. It's the beginning."

1957


PS: OK, it wasn't him. but I like the name...
 
Lord Insane

Lord Insane

Name of the first man on the Moon: Abay Çelik

Country who put him there: Joint Commonwealth/Concord Project [Abay Çelik is a citizen of the Ottoman Empire]

Name of spacecraft: Unity

His first words: Now, the child have truly left the cradle!

The year: 1963

Note: The PoD is really late 19th century, but the effects does not really kick in until 1905.
 
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Michel Van

Michel Van

Name of the first man on the Moon: Louis Simonet

Country who put him there: EUROPE

Name of spacecraft: Perseo L-5 (orbiter) vespa (one men Lander)

His first words: "Me promenadar sur Luna, Nos defaiter le Yankees"
(interlingua =I walk on the Moon, We defeated the Yankees (last word is Negativ form for US Americans by European)

The year: 1988
 

seraphim74

Name of the first man on the Moon: Jan Twardowski (his partner was Semen Doroshenko)
Country who put him there: Rzeczpospolita Wolnych Narodów / The Commonwealth of Free Nations (Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia, Ukraine)
Name of spacecraft: Copernicus (spaceship), Hevelius (two men lander)
His first words: Kurwa mać! (English rough equivalent: Holy f**k!) - he slipped and fell from the ladder.
The year: 1952
 

Simon Darkshade

Name of the first man on the Moon: Albert Wilmarth, Jnr
Country who put him there: United States of America
Name of spacecraft: Columbus
His first words: I..wait, there's somethi- It's moving!
The year: 1967
 

maverick

Banned
Name of the first man on the Moon: Max Lang

Country who put him there: Germany

Name of spacecraft: Lohengrin

His first words: 'Oh, have the Fatherland's triumphs meant so much until today?'

The year: 1970

From a TL I once made, in which the Military takes over Germany in 1943 and eliminate the nazis.
 

Kabraloth

Name of the first man on the Moon: Christopher Sinkiewicz

Country who put him there: United States of Greater Austria

Name of spacecraft: Futura II

His first words: "First Terra, now Luna. Next stop: Mars."

The year: 1976
 

maverick

Banned
A couple of others, for fun...

Name of the first man on the Moon: Hiroshi Kita
Country who put him there: Empire of Japan
Name of spacecraft: Akari III
His first words: 'the void, the great void, a field of peace in the great emptyness of time'
The year: 1968

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Name of the first man on the Moon: Impey Barbicane
Country who put him there: United States of America
Name of spacecraft: Columbiad
His first words: 'Ja! anything our minds can imagine, artillery can make a reality!
The year: 1865

:p
 
Aozhouhuaren

Aozhouhuaren

Banned
Name of the first man on the Moon: Chan Kong Sang 陳港生
Country who put him there: Hong Kong (United Kingdom)
Name of spacecraft: Admiral I
His first words: (In Cantonese) "the challenge"(The only words comprehensible through the large amount of static in the communication)
The year: 1975
 
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Aozhouhuaren

Aozhouhuaren

Banned
Name of the first man on the Moon: Amitabh Bachchan अमिताभ बच्चन
Country who put him there: Republic of India
Name of spacecraft: Ganga II
His first words: “You have shown that one can sustain success.” (A little ambiguous, to this day, no one knows if he was talking about the success of his career as an astronaut or about India as a nation)
The year: 1969
 
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Kabraloth

Another one...

Name of the first man on the Moon: Stefano Garcia Durgess

Country who put him there: The World Collective

Name of spacecraft: Terrasol

His first words: "A small step for mankind, a greater step yet in the future".

The year: 1949
 
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