What makes you think there even was a race to the Moon with Russia?
All the public evidence.
There is documented evidence to the contrary...On November 12th 1963 President Kennedy issued a Top Secret National Security Action Memorandum No. 271...
No, this document is part of the discredited, inauthentic Majestic documents. It is simply a typewritten document purporting to be from President Kennedy, but it does not bear his signature nor appear on White House stationery used for such purposes. It is widely quoted by UFO fanatics seeking to show that the government had knowledge of the extraterrestrial nature of UFOs, and by JFK assassination conspiracy theorists attempting to provide a reason why Kennedy needed to be silenced.
There was a degree of cooperation proposed at the high level between the United States and the Soviet Union, but it was not (yet) for cooperation in space operations. The question of sovereignty and applicable international law had not yet been settled for the purposes of space exploration. The U.S. and the USSR, being at the time the only spacefaring nations, met and agreed that certain conventions would hold, such as respecting each nation's spacecraft as sovereign property and agreeing to repatriate any crew or equipment that found its way unexpectedly onto the other's soil.
In fact there is actual photographic evidence that it went ahead...At least one of the official Apollo mission photos where a US Astronaut was supposed to be in Space, was clearly taken in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft!
Yes, American astronauts were legitimately aboard Soviet Soyuz spacecraft and were copiously photographed there. The existence of such a photograph does not immediately substantiate your claim.
In the likelyhood that it has now been deleted by NASA, for obvious reasons, the photo can still be found in the book: "Apollo, Dark Moon And The Whistle Blowers".
That's a 500-page book. Care to be more specific?
And before you ask, no, I am not the author or connected financially with the publication in any way.
I know you're not the author because the author is terrified to speak to me about his work. He refused two third-party invitations to debate his findings with me on mainstream television. He declined both. He has been avoiding me now for about ten years. His blatant intellectual dishonesty should give you a clue about how reliable his evidence is.
I have read the latter book though and seen the photo for myself. The book was freely available to borrow from my local public library.
Yes, most of us own the book. No need to amp up the alleged secrecy.