Russia won the space race
>>218259825we all lost until we leave the solar system and find another habitable home planet
>>218259825Russia didn’t even exist at the time.
>>218259862Ok but Russia owns space because it was first there
>>218259825"Our Germans were better than their Germans."Operation Paperclip, 1945 - 1959
>>218259825You "won" by being first in a few token achievements. We won by having the superior technology and success rate. And we continued to win well after the race with advanced probe after advanced probe while you guys could barely even land a toaster on Venus.
>>218260126>superior success rate>Soviet fatalities in space: 4>American fatalities in space: 12
>>218259825fuck no are you retarded?starship is in advance stages of development and russia has nothing that can even try to compete with falcon. russia is barely in the race because they can still use cheap labor to produce soyuz but soyuz is trash and soyuz 7 isnt going anywhere in the forseeable futurethe idea that third world countries can compete in the space race is a non starter
>The United States has the most satellites in space, with estimates varying but generally showing over 8,000 operational satellites>Russia has a significant number of satellites in orbit, with recent figures from mid-2025 placing them around 1,559 operational satellitesIt's overЭтo кoнeц
>>218259883>Something bad happened in the USSR Le ruzzian hivans did Chernobyl o algo>Something good happened in the USSR It was le zainichi Ukrainian/Lithuanian/Polish o algo
