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Imagine claiming victory after being eight years late lmao. Typical US.
Why did the Soviets never do a manned moon landing?
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Another thing: when the N1 program flopped the Soviets still didn't have a moon lander, a bunch of space rendezvous experience, et cetera. The American moon landing was really accomplished by two programs - Gemini and Apollo - while the Soviets tried to do everything at once and the result was the largest non-nuclear explosion of all time.
So they decided to just focus on what they had an advantage in: automation and precision, which left the moon program on the wayside.
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Space race will be a 1-1-1 tie
Imagine caring so much about what the US thinks about itself that you go to the trouble of making this meme lmao.
Imagine caring so much
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I think this was made by a r/cth user a while back and a little time after that they made an updated version with even more soviet achievements. Does anyone have that version?
No, I never added more achievements, but I did quickly make an updated version that fixed a couple tiny errors as they were pointed out to me:
He might be thinking about this progenitor meme (which I didn't create):
Thanks for clarification 
Not an insignificant number of Americans believe we never landed on the moon though
I mean its easy when your motto is “safety 3rd”.
