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 :)
The arguments I hear is that the Soviets always did some “cheap” thing where it allowed them to do it first without some technological superiority which supposedly the US had, I’m not that familiar with the topic but I doubt this narrative. Also because the funnelled immense amounts of money into propaganda for the moon landing, and I assume there’s a little bit to the relation between space programs and the development of nuclear warheads, where both were very related to each other, and the bellic part of it and the warmongering ended up winning rather than the actual scientific development. In the eyes of the Usonian, Soviet development of space programmes were just the scientific advancement of nuclear deterrence.
Absolute legend o7
This is from an article of various things that happened on this date throughout history so the cosmonette part is barely a footnote. But the same article links to a proper full length piece on Valentina Tereshkova on the same website. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1963/06/17/Valentina-Tereshkova-becomes-first-woman-in-space/7181529031077/
It’s a bit of a weirdly written article at times. Very focussed on the US, which I guess is relevant given the context but comes across strangely combative and defensive considering it’s supposed to be marking an achievement. Good to see that achievement get some press, I must admit I never knew the name of the first woman in space, which is pretty bad.
they were the bidens of the era
What is that even supposed to mean?
it means two things
- the soviets were 50 years ahead of their time in social progressivism
- original commenter doesn’t understand economics
But Biden has never been ahead of his time…?
Under what kind of logic is Biden a progressive, though, he’s barely to the left of Trump.
