Additionally, it should be pointed out that the Soviet Union explored space for scientific and human advancement. The US did it to try to one-up the ‘evil communists’

  • comfy
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    52 years ago

    Sure, but off-topic

    • @pingveno
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      -32 years ago

      Point is, this leaves out any achievement where the US had a “win” unless it was so famous as to be unavoidable.

      • comfy
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        42 years ago

        They’re left out because it’s explicitly a list of the first group to reach a place. That’s the concept of a ‘race’. Coming second and doing better is noteworthy but irrelevant. And if you want to say that the idea of it being a race is therefore stupid, I would agree.

        The point of the post (as referenced in the title) is that the brag of “winning the space race” held by most in the US is literally false by almost every metric.

    • @jackalope
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      -42 years ago

      How is this off topic? Disagreeing with the op isn’t off topic my dude. Fragile.

      • comfy
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        32 years ago

        Would you prefer the more accurate term ‘non-sequitur’?