When Apollo 11 lifted off 50 years ago Tuesday, the goal was to beat the Soviets to the moon. Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and a former Soviet missile engineer, looks back on the era with The World’s host, Marco Werman. Khrushchev says Soviet leaders didn’t fully embrace the competition and considered collaborating with American scientists in order to save the USSR’s scarce resources.
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