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u/RockyMarsh90 Feb 02 '23
we all know the REAL winners of the space race is that small island country that put a hedgehog in a slingshot and--I'm sorry what? Oh...*ahem* I have just been informed that I am describing an old flash game on Newgrounds and that such events never really occurred...now I am sad.
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u/LuminousMushroom999 Feb 02 '23
I always felt like the Space Race was over when one of the competitors suffered a coup de tat
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u/D-to-the-J Feb 02 '23
lose, not loose
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u/xX500_IQXx (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ Feb 02 '23
spoiled not spoilt
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u/SignificanceSame9452 Feb 02 '23
If they're a Brit then "spoilt" would be accepted here too.
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u/Wizards_Reddit Feb 02 '23
If they’re speaking English ‘spoilt’ is correct, not just Brits. It’s correct in pretty much every native English speaking country and it is taught internationally to non-native speakers. It seems that even in American English it can work it’s just almost never used.
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u/UltralightMistyjr Feb 02 '23
Say it w a Soviet accent tho
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u/Bigbonedbandit Feb 02 '23
To do that, it would have to be “like spoilt child” not “like A spoilt child”
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u/mikthelegend Feb 02 '23
Read these two comments like master oogway saying “quit… don’t quit, noodles… don’t noodles”.
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u/Odd-Concentrate-6585 Feb 02 '23
I see this everywhere lately, unsure what demographic is using reddit more current time as opposed to 5 or 8 years ago but they're fucking shit at spelling
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u/dan_m_rib Feb 02 '23
Or maybe they aren’t native English speakers, we do exist too you know
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u/Odd-Concentrate-6585 Feb 02 '23
Just noticed a trend as of recently, good job existing tho
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u/kevinTOC Feb 02 '23
There are times where I admittedly wish I wasn't. I mean, do I really need to explain?
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u/Dudejax Feb 02 '23
So true. Everyone is on the moon now.
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u/WaylonJenningsFoot Feb 02 '23
Pffft.. At this point there's a fucking Arby's on the moon.
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u/BooTaoSus Feb 02 '23
I read somewhere there was a fast food company that sent their pizza to space, cost them I think around 11 million iirc. I think it was Pizza Hut or Greenwich, can't remember.
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u/IHateMath14 Feb 02 '23
I don’t think op realizes just how difficult space travel is
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u/Redpri Feb 02 '23
No, I’m pretty sure they’re talking about how the Soviets were in space before the US, and kept setting records after the US landed on the moon.
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u/SverigeSuomi Feb 02 '23
Getting to the moon is significantly more difficult than anything the Soviets achieved in space.
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u/CorkyCorks8 Feb 02 '23
Hell, I can kill a dog in space! Just launch a rocket with a timed explosive as high as possible and there you go.
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u/litterallysatan Breaking EU Laws Feb 02 '23
Soviets were the first to land on the moon in 1966. but i see where you come from with the apollo missions being pressurized and returning with living crew it is significantly more impressive
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u/Redpri Feb 02 '23
The Soviets were the first to land a probe on the moon and the first to land on a different planet.
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u/alexbigshid Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Besides landing on the moon, the US also did:
-First flyby of Jupiter
-First solar powered satellite
-First communications satellite
-First Mercury flyby
-First satellite in polar orbit
-First photograph of earth from orbit
-First spy satellite
-First recovery of a satellite that went into orbit
-First monkey in space
-First human-controlled space flight
-First orbital observation of the sun
-First spacecraft to impact the far side of the moon
-First suborbital space plane (X-15)
-First satellite navigation system
-First piloted spacecraft orbit change
-First spacecraft docking
-First crewed orbit of the moon
-First orbit of Mars
-First object to enter the asteroid belt
-First gravitational assist
But yall consider them the losers huh
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u/TurboTristan Feb 02 '23
why are you being downvoted? youre correct?
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u/AllyEmmie Feb 02 '23
The Soviet’s never landed a single human being on another planet though. Thats just incorrect. No one has done that yet.
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u/NotMe296565565654 Feb 02 '23
They are referencing when the Soviets landed a probe on Venus not people
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u/litterallysatan Breaking EU Laws Feb 02 '23
The soviets landed several missions on venus and on mars and were thr first to do so the americans have also landed several missions on mars. You dont need people in order to land on a planet.
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u/Logical_IssueMC Me when the: Feb 02 '23
Probably Americans
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u/Greegrgrgrgrgrgrg Feb 02 '23
Spot on, you’re being downvoted as well
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u/Logical_IssueMC Me when the: Feb 02 '23
POV the average American after receiving criticism (they haven't learnt to grow up)
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u/Cold-Tap-363 Feb 02 '23
It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. It was all essentially a PR stunt, to put it simply. If the public consensus at the time was that America won, then America won. Yeah, the Soviet’s did a BUNCH of small things, but America did the huge thing that captured the public’s attention.
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u/forcallaghan Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
The US also set other records besides landing on the moon though. Like, In terms of raw number of achievements the US and USSR were pretty neck-and-neck
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u/DownBrownTown Feb 02 '23
It’s because landing people on the moon is such an absurd task.
I dare you. Look it up. Read about what went into landing on the moon, and then getting home. It’s absolutely bonkers what the US space program pulled off. And yea competitors were doing similar stuff, Russia had actually already landed an unmanned craft there first, but landing people on the moon and coming home with the tech we had at the time was nearly impossible and potentially a suicide mission. No almost certainly a suicide mission.
To this day the US is the only one to send actual people to the moon. It’s leaps and bounds above crashing or landing a drone on the moon. And apparently we did it several times.
So no I wouldn’t say it’s childish to essentially shoot past the bar that was being set and land the bar so fucking high that no one else could or would do it. TO THIS DAY. If that’s not considered “winning” then I don’t know what is.
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u/Mori_Unstable Feb 02 '23
I agree with most of your points but the fact that noone sends people on moon anymore is simply because they don't have to, not that they can't.
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u/vesrayech Feb 02 '23
Sounds like something a country that's never landed people on the moon would say ;)
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u/Redpepper40 Feb 02 '23
I love how people who are patriotic are able to take pride in stuff they literally had zero involvement in
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u/Slinky_Malingki Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
It would literally be more difficult to fake the moon landings than to actually land on the moon. To get the kind of footage that they got would be impossible with 60s technology.
And the biggest nail in the coffin for moon landing hoaxers is Russia. Enemies of America, desperately wanting to beat them. They followed the journeys of the Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 very closely, verifying everything. When Apollo 11 finally landed on the lunar surface, the USSR investigated it to verify it's authenticity. And they admitted that they lost. The Soviet Union, which covered up every failure and loss, never admitted fault, proclaimed the Apollo moon landings to be legitimate.
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u/pixlplayer Feb 02 '23
Who are you yelling at nobody here has made any claims about faking the moon landings
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u/theOverword Feb 02 '23
Yeah the moom is a white empty desert. There is helium 3 by for now its useless for us.
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u/Samvel_2015 Feb 02 '23
I think that first human-made machine, first human in space, first human in OPEN space are pretty comparable feats.
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u/coffinwoodb Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Gagarin flew some one hundred kilometers above earth. Imagine travelling 100 km by bike. It's a tough job but with preparation is doable for most people.
Now Apollo 11 went 390.000 km to the moon and back. Imagine what an amount of effort this would take riding a bicycle on earth ten times around the equator.
Even with today's technology it would in comparison be quite easy to shoot a person into low orbit and have them land. But the moon needs a completely different approach.
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u/Samvel_2015 Feb 02 '23
Yeah, but along with Gagarin there were other major things like mentioned first machine in space and first human in open space, or first gun in space and etc. America had one very major win, but their opponents had although separately not comparable feats, but together enough amount of major achievements to be considered a winner in a race.
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u/YR510 Feb 02 '23
"First machine in space" or "first gun in space" can't really be considered achievements. As they can all be completed in a single mission. It's like breaking up the moon landing into "first human to put a flag on the moon" and "first human to talk on the moon". The U.S had one major victory, which was combining everything humanity knew about space travel and pulling off a task which is magnitudes times more difficult than anything tried before.
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u/Samvel_2015 Feb 02 '23
I don't understand your first point. You say that first gun in space and first machine in space(under machine I meant satellite, sorry, I have a small vocabulary) can't be considered achievements because they can be completed in one mission?
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u/YR510 Feb 02 '23
Yes, that's what I mean. If I launch a rocket into space and put a teddy bear on it because no one ever launched a teddy bear before into space, while technically I am the first to do that can we really consider that an achievement?
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u/Samvel_2015 Feb 02 '23
You know that satellite and gun are very different things, right? Launching a GPS Satellite for example is definitely not the same as launching a weapon into space. And I don't understand how your example with launching teddy bear supports your point.
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u/Redpri Feb 02 '23
Maybe landing on another planet.
Because the Soviet yet again, we’re first there too.
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u/Laffepannekoek Feb 02 '23
Yea but it wasn't rly a race. The Sovjets stated well before the moonlanding that they had not intentions of landing on the moon. They would just watch how the Americans would land or "moon" there. Winning that race is like imagining you are racing a random car in the highway, and call yourself a winner after reaching a certain point.
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u/Slimmie_J Feb 02 '23
You try getting people to the moon in back with the total computing power equivalent to that of a Ti-84
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u/Hapymine Feb 02 '23
Where won the space race so hard that NASA is competing with American companies to get man a mars.
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u/dooot7 Feb 02 '23
Fun facts with squidward: that is a massive run-on-sentence and it’s lose not loose. Please try again.
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u/Plenty_Maybe_9204 Feb 02 '23
It didn't end because the US "just said the race was over". It ended because putting people on the Moon was, and, to this day, is, the limit of our ability to travel in space. The US wasn't a spoiled child (for that reason, at least), they were the only ones who could get the hardest task done. They're still the only ones to have done it. Your meme sucks. Your grammar sucks. Your username is accurate
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u/SteeITriceps Feb 02 '23
Hypothetically, if Venezuela managed to found a mars colony before the US, would we consider them the space race winners?
I suppose “the space race” was specifically between the US and USSR, and is now completely over.
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u/CyanideBiscuit https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Feb 02 '23
I would call it the new space race if anything at all, but it’s not really a race anymore, because back then it was to prove your country was better, but now nobody seems to care about space stuff
And the race implies the countries are putting a lot of effort into outdoing each other, which isn’t happening anymore. NASA collaborates with ESA all the time
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u/ImJustHereToWatch_ Feb 02 '23
I mean...We're still ahead.
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u/10Link23 Professional Dumbass Feb 02 '23
We still exist. We havent suffered a coup de tat. Cant exactly say the same about the Soviets
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u/Blitzstrikers1 Feb 02 '23
You do realize that at the time the computers they had at the time took up entire rooms.
With that technology ain't no way in hell anyone was making it to mars or any other planet.
So the US winning the space race is justified because they did the "Impossible" for that period of time.
Even now going to mars is a big ordeal.
It would be great if we got there, but then what?
The gravity there is different, There is no water, There is no vegetation, there is no Oxygen.
So before we decide to go start a colony we need to work on these things.
And there was no way anyone in the 60's could do this.
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u/Dangerous-Dick-1999 Feb 02 '23
Do you know how ridiculously far other planets are from earth, let alone outside our galaxy? Heck, we don't even know our own galaxy that well. There are theories that there are other planets beyond pluto. Our tech is not advance enough and our oil won't get us far. Unless we discover a new form of energy, we're stuck on earth and the best thing we can do is landing on the moon.
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
manned Interstellar travel on a short timescale would require going faster than fucking light
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u/DownBrownTown Feb 02 '23
I got good news for your friend. We had a nuclear fusion breakthrough (in the US) I think we will be fine.
Unless we kill ourselves.
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u/Dangerous-Dick-1999 Feb 02 '23
I have a funny feeling we're definitely gonna kill ourselves.
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u/Whyamiherewtflmaoidc Feb 02 '23
It is so sad to hear that all of those scientists involved in the breakthrough killed themselves in 3 months with 5 bullets to the head.
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u/freeryda Feb 02 '23
Really hoping we don't nuke ourselves before fusion is a sustainable reality. I wanna see some cool shit before I end up in the ground or disintegrated in hellfire.
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u/Fluffy_Mood5781 Professional Dumbass Feb 02 '23
Looks like someone’s jealous they only got to orbit.
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u/Significant_Dig9961 Sussy Baka Feb 02 '23
People really just say anything to hate on USA don’t they. Who even thinks about this stuff
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u/Wendigo-boyo Feb 02 '23
Because dumb people keep repeating " udgh udgh we landed on the moon before you,our flag is there we are better udgh udgh " and someone got annoyed enough to make this meme
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u/EducatorReasonable51 Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
Damn. So, I guess the Russians kept on going since it wasn't over and they've probably been to the moon multiple times in the decades since right?
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u/RustedRuss Feb 02 '23
Exactly. Nobody was able to top the moon landing = US won the space race, at least until somebody manages to beat that. I don’t get why all these commieboos want to make excuses for a failed state.
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u/Blakut Feb 02 '23
But they kept winning. Today the us is landing suv sized nuclear powered robots on mars using rocket cranes and sending giant unfolding telescopes a million and a half km from earth, and they have the only two interstellar objects.
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
4 interstellar objects, and soon to be 5. Pioneer 10 and 11 are interstellar, and the new horizons probe is on its way out of the solar system as well
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u/manicmonkey45 Feb 02 '23
Omg the amount of copium addicts that for some reason don't like the US beating the USSR when it matters to them least of all.
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u/Hole_Floor0 Feb 02 '23
thank god i swear if i saw someone claiming it to be fake i would have lost my faith in humanity
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u/Godlikebuthumble Feb 02 '23
Bullshit. The US reached the conceivable end goal at the time (if we take the space race at face value and not the military dick-measuring it actually was), and the USSR was glad to have a legit excuse to stop bleeding money into a contest they could not win.
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u/JohnNameJohn Feb 02 '23
Well there's still an opportunity to go further. I'd love to continue the space race. First person to send ME to Mars wins.
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
“Duhh, we never had any intentions to go to the moon”
(literally sweeping up burning N1 wrecks in the backround)
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u/VStrozzi Feb 02 '23
This is not correct. How has nobody here commented about JFK's "we choose to go to the Moon" speech? It was in 62. The bar was set years beforehand.
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u/Ali-G8r Feb 02 '23
💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎😎😎
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u/helicophell Feb 02 '23
Nah fam, the Moon was the finish line. Even now we can't really land people on other planets, the moon is the furthest we can/could get too. It isn't an arbitrary finish line
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u/P00TiZ Feb 02 '23
Fun facts with Patrick!
USSR participated in a space race while it couldn't feed it's citizens! Truly self-describing priorities!
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u/CheetoRay Feb 02 '23
Space race was to build a missile that cloud put a huge nuclear warhead to any point on the planet. Putting people on the moon was just a convenient excuse and a performance measuring proxy. For the US it ended with fanfare, for USSR - with top secrecy.
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u/-Suck-My-Fish-Stix- Feb 02 '23
Lose*
If you're gonna trash an entire country, at least learn to spell your trash tier meme correctly
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u/Consistent_Paper_104 Feb 02 '23
You ok?
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u/fat_ugly_fuck Feb 02 '23
Yeah. Why
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u/Consistent_Paper_104 Feb 02 '23
I just think you should move on. Glad your OK though and hope that keeps up!
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u/fat_ugly_fuck Feb 02 '23
Yeah I'm perfect.
Thanks for asking.
But I gotta admit I wasn't expecting to dig my own grave Just because of a dumb meme that no one was supposed to take seriously.
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u/ShadowTown0407 Feb 02 '23
Judging from your other comments you seem to be the one taking it seriously.
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u/Consistent_Paper_104 Feb 02 '23
To be fair it is reddit. Kudos for keeping the post up lol. You can only lose 15 karma per post or comment regardless of how much hate it gets anyway so it doesn't really matter. And remember at the end of the day, fuck these people.
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u/freebirth Feb 02 '23
thats simply not true. while the space race' original goal wasnt the moon. the end shot was pretty quickly DEFINETLY putting a peron on the moon. and both sides where trying to one up each other to be the first and best at doing things.
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u/TheBlack2007 Haram Feb 02 '23
It’s not like the Soviets never planned to land on the moon. They just couldn’t make their N1 Moon rocket work.
Also, the US surpassed the Soviets in terms of scope of their space program way before the moon landing.
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u/whimsical_Yam123 Feb 02 '23
Then why has no one else done it? You can talk when your flag is up there losers. Not to mention the space race actually ended when there was only one country racing anymore.
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u/odksnh6w2pdn32tod0 Feb 02 '23
There's always even a bigger goal. At that point that was pretty good description for a space race
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u/Slinky_Malingki Feb 02 '23
Except one if the main goals was to get to the moon.... It's why the USSR was also developing a moon rocket and lunar lander. The space race ended because once the US made it to the moon, interest for a moon mission from Russia dried up, and funding was cut. The N1 program was cancelled. It had nothing to do with America saying "lol we won so you have to stop doing your own space stuff." This is just another effortless shill against America because"aMeRiCa BaD"
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u/One_Chemistry_9759 Feb 02 '23
By your ass backwards spelling in guessing your British. Must've sucked watching from the sidelines.
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u/TechsSandwich Feb 02 '23
A lot of people seem to misunderstand the space race.
The technical “space race” was to see who could get the first human into space, which Russia did complete before the United States, and technically won.
But that wasn’t the ultimate prize, the ultimate prize was to go to the moon, which America did, so it’s a little complicated.
Basically Russia won the “space race” to get into space first, but that race was significantly smaller in comparison to the achievement of landing a manned mission on the moon. a lot of people think the moon landing and the space race are the same thing, but a good way to put it is like the space race was a famous battle Russia won in the space war, but ultimately America won the space war with the moon landing. Anyone who argues anything differently has absolutely 0 clue just how impressive the moon landing was.
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u/SteeITriceps Feb 02 '23
Imagine two athletes facing each other in a track and field event, at the Olympics. The Soviet athlete wins all the events they compete in, while the American comes in second. Looks like the Soviet athlete won.
Four years later, the Olympics occur again, and both athletes step up to the challenge once more. This time, the American athlete wins their races, even setting world records in all of them, that still stand to this day. The Soviet athlete suffers a coup de etat, and all his limbs declare independence, whilst his brain resigns from office.
Yeah, the Soviet athlete won a bunch of medals, and no one can take them away. However, the US still holds all the records.
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u/Tsongores Feb 02 '23
The space race is not finished ! There are still stuff to do, it is not a race against ourself but against the univers and the univers does not care about what we do. We have to survive the great void, the space race continue !
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u/Imrightbruh Feb 02 '23
The space race can start again when another country manages to do what the US did 50 years ago with minimal technology.
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u/Tsongores Feb 02 '23
It was a great achievement yes. But your commentary sweat the feeling of superiority and contempt. It does nothing to help or motivate people to look to the stars.
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u/Imrightbruh Feb 02 '23
Yknow what, I got too worked up over some other peoples comments.
You’re completely right. It shouldn’t be about some petty competition, it should be a celebration of the amazing thing that us humans can do.
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u/DjinnOfYourDreams Feb 02 '23
'Race' refers to whoever gets to the finish line first. The finish line in this case being the moon, which should be glaringly obvious seeing as the whole goddamn thing is called 'The race to the moon'. The USSR landed unmanned aircraft on the moon before the US, but the US was the first to actually have people land on the moon. If that's not a clear win, seeing as how they reached the finish line first, I don't know what is. Not American btw
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u/BigBrain8875 OC Meme Maker Feb 02 '23
The space race never had a finish line, which the posts says. It only became a finish line when the US reached it. Idk how it works man it's confusing
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
The Soviets literally had a manned lunar program. The N1 was supposed to be their saturn V equivalent
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u/BigBrain8875 OC Meme Maker Feb 02 '23
Idk maybe they were preparing to reach the moon before the US which made it be the finish line but I look more into the arms race in the Cold War
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
It’s not a “maybe” They literally were trying to reach the moon first. If they weren’t trying to reach the moon, why would they build the N1, and dedicate so many resources towards its construction
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u/RustedRuss Feb 02 '23
Counterpoint: the USSR wasted so much on the space race and other posturing that it collapsed while the US still exists.
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u/Its_Fonzo Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
It's the only achievable goal for centuries to come
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u/Dr-Chris-C Feb 02 '23
No. The US continued and continues to this day some very amazing feats in space exploration. It's the other side that dropped out...
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u/Straight-Knowledge83 Feb 02 '23
NASA still used Soyuz rockets up until the 2020. The current situation with Russia is bad but the Russian scientists make robust rockets and their contribution to space exploration, while not being obvious to the general public , are very significant.
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u/BlackAndFactual Feb 02 '23
Ahhh so it's like how America declared victory against Vietnam as they were hauling ass outta Vietnam right?
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
Except we actually won this time
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u/BlackAndFactual Feb 02 '23
It really depends on where you draw your imaginary finish line
First animal in space: the dog Laika - Soviet Union
First man in space: Yuri Gagarin - Soviet Union
NASA last mission was in 2011, Russian's space program still going strong...NASA had to pay Russia to drag American astronauts to space
So yeahh..it really is a lot like Vietnam isnt it? where do you draw the finish line?
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
“NASA’s last mission was in 2011” I’m sorry, does the Commercial Crew, DART, Artemis 1, Falcon 9 crew dragon, Juno, TESS, CAPSTONE, JWST, Curiosity, Mars 2020, Parker solar probe, and probably a fuckton of other missions not exist?
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u/BlackAndFactual Feb 02 '23
On July 21, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completes its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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u/The-Sturmtiger-Boi 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Feb 02 '23
Yea, that was the space shuttle. There’s more to NASA than just space shuttles. You completely ignored the boatload of missions that came after the shuttle program.
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u/Odd-Concentrate-6585 Feb 02 '23
Yeah russia got into space first and america just decided it was the moon
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u/10Link23 Professional Dumbass Feb 02 '23
lets see you put humans on Mars with 60's era tech
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
It’s also funny because the Russians beat them to every milestone except the moon. It’s like playing rock paper scissors, losing, and saying “best of three?”
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u/Tentacle_poxsicle Cringe Factory Feb 02 '23
America had a satellite leave the solar system. So it's still winning right now
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u/xX500_IQXx (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ Feb 02 '23
Well I mean the russians also didnt care about ethical concerns and sent a dog to die in space. So yeah.
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
I can respect that, rest in peace Lyka. But a few American humans also died to get the US to the moon.
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u/CyanideBiscuit https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Feb 02 '23
Yeah but the astronauts agreed to do that and were well aware they were just sitting on a nuclear bomb’s worth of fuel to be thrown off the planet at record speeds, obviously if anything goes wrong it could spell disaster
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u/Imrightbruh Feb 02 '23
The USSR still has not sent a man to the moon. We didnt decide the finish line, we just managed to do something with 1960s tech that no other country has done even today.
If you’re seeing who can run the farthest and one guy goes farther before everyone else stops, the guy who went farther wins. He didnt move the finish line, he was just the only guy who made it.
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u/IHateMath14 Feb 02 '23
The way a race works is the person who crosses the finish kind first, not being the “first.” Besides, American inventions came later because of better technological development. Sputnik was just a giant metal ball with rods attached. Explorer I could actually take a couple of readings and relay them back to ground.
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
The point of my original comment is it’s easy to win a race if you keep moving the finish line.
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u/Samih420 Feb 02 '23
They didn't move the finishing line, because there was never one in the first place. They literally never ended it, it was just who could do the coolest space related things. Then we got to the moon, and that was the coolest space related thing they we going to get to in like a 100 years, so they kind of stopped trying after that.
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u/IHateMath14 Feb 02 '23
Yeah pretty much
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
Ah, so we agree
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u/IHateMath14 Feb 02 '23
Mostly yes
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
Well then, I thank you for conversing with me.
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u/ilikegus Feb 02 '23
It’s a marathon baby. USSR sprinted, but we outkicked at the end
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
To what end though? What did the space race actually prove? Just a big pissing contest.
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u/10Link23 Professional Dumbass Feb 02 '23
Ah yes, surviving on the harsh lunar lands that dont have an atmosphere, oxygen, or even protection from extreme temperatures proves nothing. I have nothing else to say.
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u/Own_Ad_4301 Feb 02 '23
It literally does prove nothing. It does nothing for the world. Going to moon was just so the US could say I’ve done it and u haven’t.
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u/Welp_I_got_stung Feb 02 '23
Successfully landing 3 men on the moon and getting them back alive is a much bigger milestone than the milestones the soviets got.
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