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There is an old debate that the Russians were the first during the whole race to space (first in orbit, first animal, first human - both died), and were overpas
by eastbound 2y ago
There is an old debate that the Russians were the first during the whole race to space (first in orbit, first animal, first human - both died), and were overpassed by the americans at the last leg. Then the Europeans were ahead with a supersonic jet in commercial exploitation, and the Russians beat us this time (by 3 months, with a copy of our own design).
- rdlw 2y agoBoth died?? I mean, Neil Armstrong died too, but it hardly seems fair to put it that way... Also, you missed first spacewalk and that they got the first satellite AND the first human in space, and the first flyby of the moon, and the first images of the far side of the moon, and the first extraterrestrial rover.