It’s always kinda weird to see space technology held up as an example of capitalist superiority given that the USSR won pretty much every contest in the space race except for the moon landing. And the moon landing thing was mainly down to metallurgy and Korolev’s cancer.
First satellite, first live flight, first human, first woman, first long orbit, first rendezvous, first spacewalk, first lunar probes, etc. etc.
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