It’s crazy how thoroughly memory-holed the entirety of the soviet space program was. They clearly won the space race, both as a matter of technological progression and social milestones, but somehow the US state managed to hoodwink its people into believing that the space race was always about landing on the moon, not putting up a satellite wait no putting a person in space wait no not that one either putting a person in orbit shit they keep beating us
The Soviets literally won the race to space, but the Americans landing people on the moon was hella impressive. Also worth mentioning that for the past ~50 years, we’ve sent people to live in space stations (Soviet invention) but not back to the moon (American accomplishment). And of course the Soyuz rocket remained relevant this entire time. But either way, space exploration is awesome! I love both space agencies :)
It’s crazy how thoroughly memory-holed the entirety of the soviet space program was. They clearly won the space race, both as a matter of technological progression and social milestones, but somehow the US state managed to hoodwink its people into believing that the space race was always about landing on the moon, not
putting up a satellitewait noputting a person in spacewait no not that one eitherputting a person in orbitshit they keep beating usThe Soviets literally won the race to space, but the Americans landing people on the moon was hella impressive. Also worth mentioning that for the past ~50 years, we’ve sent people to live in space stations (Soviet invention) but not back to the moon (American accomplishment). And of course the Soyuz rocket remained relevant this entire time. But either way, space exploration is awesome! I love both space agencies :)