On November 26, 1965, France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite, the Diamant-A. Who else knew the French were also belated involved with the Space Race? I mean besides some sad French school kids in 1965 who were forced to chant, “Nous sommes numéro trois! Nous sommes numéro trois!”
Why is it that with so many technologically advanced countries on your planet, only two of them made any serious attempts to send humans to the moon, and only one did so successfully? Fortunately though, every country can Share Twisted-History, which is much more important anyway.