Leo Emil Wanta, born 1940, is an American businessman who claims to be the Reagan-appointed trustee of potentially trillions of dollars, the result of an arbitrage scheme to sink the Soviet economy.
Two of its 29 members are the United States and Canada, the other 27 are European countries, and NATO was created after World War II to help balance out the influence of the Soviet Union in eastern Europe.
A soft landing means a spacecraft has a slow, controlled descent and spacecraft from only three countries the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have ever done this.
The organization was created in 1949 to protect western European nations against the Soviet Union and in recent years as Russia has made moves to assert its power in the Black Sea region.