yearly reminder
Why is putting a woman in space an accomplishment?
What about monkey?
>>70726543
>first woman in space
This is why we don't have a Soviet Union anymore
>>70726813
kek
>>70726842
No Italy, you can't go into space.
>>70726543
yus komrade soviet union was best cuntry in wrrld ussr win spehs race every day tupac alive in soviet and make best raap fuk FUk USA fuk usa they loose all time thy are BAD bad BAD capatalast faggots
>>70726842
>all those random animals and unaccounted for secret missions floating endlessly in space
We collapsed last. Murica wins.
poland cannot into space xD
>>70726543
for the billionth time, the USA could have been first at everything in space, except for two reasons. first, we cared about the safety of our astronauts. secondly, we wanted sputnik to overfly the usa so that the huge undecided question as to where air-rights ended would be moot.
you did have more powerful boosters than us for a few years, i will grant you that. but in every other way we were way ahead of you.
It wasn't a race with a clear finish line. More like a state of things between two countries. One of them withdrew eventually. Counting "firsts" is tricky and just a pure oversimplification.
>>70727149
Don't forget the hesitance of the US Navy to give its rockets for space research too. That delayed a lot of things the most, I think.
Otherwise, USA would quite easily crush Soviet Union, hard.
>>70726543
Can't we simply say that both USA and USSR gave a shitload to Space Exploration?
Actually, they are the only countries that were doing anything at that time
>>70727149
>it's not like we wanted that huge propaganda victory or anything despite literally shitting our pants from screaming on other occasions when we could beat USSR in something
Gotta love murricunts butthurt and denial.
>>70726543
Russia is so great.
>>70727691
> Thinks Soviet production was in any way comparable to USA
You had to use like 20% of your GNP on the space program
>>70727924
[citation needed]
But so what? We still won.
And that's considering the most important half of our country was obliterated during WW2 and we lost millions of people, while US was completely intact and even profited from it.
>>70727149
You were never a space nation, you still have to book rides from Russia to get into space at all. If Russia decided to stop giving you service you'd be landed.
>inb4 MUH MUSK MUH COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT IN 30 YEARS
>>70726813
its hard to make her not fuck shit up
>>70728141
>SpaceX is successfully launching now
>still using this old and busted talking point
Did you step out of a portal from 2012?
>>70726940
Kek
>space
>>70728762
>1 successful test launch
>OMG GUYS WE SPACE NATION AGAIN!
>>70726543
I do have to admit anon. you are completely right.
USSR won that bitch outright.
But cheeseburger amerifats can't tell the difference between the moon and a hollywood set. Soooooo you lose
>>70726940
Nice
>>70726940
>>70727003
First man on the moon
>>70726543
They also didn't give a fuck if the people they sent to space lived or not. Most of them came back sick, actually.
>>70729487
nice meme
Georgiy Grechko (the first man in the open space) is still alive, he's 84
Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, is also alive at 78.
Gagarin died in an accident
>>70728762
I highly doubt that the US will rush into this and risk another explosion with men killed.
So SpaceX is going to take at least 5-10 years and hundreds of unmanned flights before the first person will get a chance.
Only because SpaceX is launching nicely now it does not mean that they will shoot fat assed 'Muricans into space next year or so.
Though last weeks landing of the 2nd stage on this ocean platform in Florida was amazing engineering.
But the mission control room filled with "USA USA USA" shouting apes was a bit disappointing.
I highly doubt that only Murican engineers worked on that.
Getting to space is not that impressive.
Sorry Ivan, USA still #1
>>70729706
>But the mission control room filled with "USA USA USA" shouting apes was a bit disappointing.
nerds generally do what they think they are supposed to do.
the average american with a brain knows that space travel, atomic energy, electronics, you name it, is a product of great minds from all over the world, but primarily from europe.
>>70729358
i admire how hard Americans memed this "first man on the moon" shit into existence as if it was humanity's top priority for someone to physically step on a crater all along
>>70728971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches
hurrrrr
>>70729706
SpaceX has already been contracted to fly people out to the ISS next year.
>>70729735
>Getting to space is not that impressive.
>Sorry Ivan, USA still #1
I think this is the real reason that we claim to have won the space race. as cool as orbiting the earth is, and as dangerous as it is, it's still like a fancy flight to us.
but when you look up at the moon and try to imagine walking around on it, that's a whole nother level of awesome.
>>70729905
I pity how hard Russians convince themselves that a moon landing wasn't important, despite you guys having plans to do it yourselves up until we got it there first.
>>70730051
HAS
>>70730029
how pity how americans heavly relies on russia to send their astronauts to space but like to meme hard on another mans accomplishments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Oww4VCWOc&nohtml5=False
>>70730129
SPAGHETTI
>>70729842
maybe to be more clear, I meant the viewing crowd with "Bazinga" and "hurrdurr the Flash" T-Shirts, not the real engineers and IT-Guys cheering.
>>70729949
got me there, mate
>>70730223
We pay good money to use their old Soyuz, though I do wish we'd set up our own vehicle before canceling the Shuttle. Thanks Obama!
For what it's worth, I do admire how the Russians more or less use the same design they've had for decades simply because they work and why fuck it up with a redesign, right?
>>70730251
SpaceX is largely American-operated, a known side effect of working closely with the American government using classified patents.
>>70730251
>, I meant the viewing crowd with "Bazinga" and "hurrdurr the Flash" T-Shirts,
you mean the wal-mart contingent? lawl. what are we supposed to do with them, ship them to australia?
>>70730420
only if you want to enrich the Australian culture
>>70726543
doesn't change the fact that russia is a shithole compared to the US
Americans are pigs
breaking news
>>70727924
Russia also has literally like 1/8th the economy and under half the population, aswell as had a very bad recent history with Stalin and ww2. Why were Russians even able to compete at all?
>>70730029
it's literally the only thing you did first, lmao
USSR had the technological potential to do it but they fucked up on some managerial level
ur like that little faggot who lost in a fight and then brags about "u remember dat sweet high-kick i did before they curbstomped me? i totally could beat their asses i swear!"
>>70730640
how can you even compete with someone who lost to you tho
>>70730640
I heard an anecdote once that ballpoint pens came about because NASA had a need to be able to write in 0G and wound up spending a ton of money to research the best solution they could find and invented a new kind of pen. Russians sent a pencil.
Something to be said for both approaches, imo.
>>70730676
>before they curbstomped me
Yeah, I still feel that curbstomping, USSR-anon. I mean Russian-anon.
>>70726543
So Hitler won the Space Race because all those achievements were accomplished by German scientists.
>>70730905
>muh pencil meme
stop being retarded.
>>70730676
>it's literally the only thing you did first, lmao
>USSR had the technological potential to do it but they fucked up on some managerial level
all jokes aside, humanity will always know one thing: there was only one space race, and the USSR and the USA were worthy competitors. nobody else was even in the race.
>>70730905
That's retarded. Pencil graphite dust would get everywhere and fuck up the then delicate electronics in the machine. Also ballpoint pens were invented in like the 1950s.
>>70726940
SAVAGE
>>70726543
>First woman in space
>Relevant
>>70730968
>>70731014
anecdotes aren't always true
>>70731076
>I was just pretending to be retarded.
Uh huh.
>>70731008
true
>>70730905
you had like 10x Jewish advantage at this point so naturally we got jewed
>>70726543
Dont forget that you guys fucked but the Yanks with the Tsar bomba in the 60's
>>70731049
>>Relevant
We wanted to know if woman are capable. She fell asleep in orbit while scientists watched her through hidden videocamera. How bout that, we had first internet peep-show before there was an internet.
>>70726543
>couldn't put the first man on the moon
>collapsed less than 100 years after being formed
congrats
>>70726543
also only man on the moon
>>70727149
>we cared about the safety of our astronauts
Check astronaut/cosmonaut casualties first.
>>70729905
It's not landing on a crater. It's landing on the mothercuking moon! They literally put somebody on another celestrial body.
>>70726543
nigger
>>70726940
KЗΚ
>>70726543
> what are lost cosmonauts ?
the Soviet space program was just another communist crime of torture, mass murder and lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2EtIKnxB2o
>>70726543
It's true, actually. I'll admit it.
While this image is a little facetious in downplaying the man on the moon accomplishment, the Soviets, for all their faults, had much more vision than America did. Were far more willing to sacrifice and sweat for this final frontier. America's space program was only ever a reaction to theirs. While we performed admirably when the time came, we never managed, as a state, to take the initiative. That is America's perpetual problem: No real vision. That's why after the Soviets fell, interest in our space program evaporated as well.
>>70728910
This
>>70732131
Top kek, some bitch reading in monotonous voice how she is burning. Hungary too dumb.
>>70726842
You mean this one?
>>70732131
here's more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JjXwnHci0Q
>>70726543
"we wuz first" isn't an achievenent since you didn't patent your inventions
>>70732131
thread/
Soviets were basically attaching rockets to dishwashers and putting people inside.
Less cosmonauts have been killed by India's space program.
just gonna leave this here
Deaths in space: The Soviet space program also suffered the first, and so-far only, deaths in space in 1971, when cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov died while returning to Earth from the Salyut 1 space station. Their Soyuz 11 craft performed. You made the first space station but failed to get the crew back. America won
The end goal of the space-race was to get a man on the Moon.
The U.S. did it first -- and have been the only to do so.
So, yes, they did win.
>>70732867
oh please. we burned three astronauts to death on the ground trying to test a radio. and then we launched a frozen space shuttle against the advice of the engineers and killed 7 more.
and then 7 more when something something fell off or whatever.
space travel will not be routine, not for a long time.
>>70730373
>Thanks Obama!
Had nothing to do with Obama, and everything to do with Bush not giving proper funding to Constellation.
>>70733014
>The end goal of the space-race was to get a man on the Moon.
why is that? because JFK?
the goals: orbit a satellite, orbit a man, go to the moon, go to mars, go to the rest of the solar system, go to the next star, etc. etc.
the end goal of the space race is to leave the solar system before the sun burns out. period.
>>70727086
It is rather Doucheland that cannot into space. :)
Daily reminder that Ahmed and Khalid are balls deep in your blonde mother and sister.
>>70733208
"before the sun burns out" is a stupidly vast period of time, we have plenty of time.
We don't have the tech to even BEGIN to think about leaving the solar system.
also this
>>70733328
>"before the sun burns out" is a stupidly vast period of time, we have plenty of time.
and in a million billion years or whatever, some sad-faced scientist will read your post just before the lights dim.
star trek is sci-fi. we might escape, we might not.
>>70727086
Neither can Germany xD
>>70732867
Remind me how many of those shuttles exploded again?
>>70733328
Technically, we could leave if we really, really had to, but it'd be extremely costly, slow and unpractical.
>>70729376
>dat burn at the end
Holy kek
>>70730640
LOL this argument just makes YOUR country look bad
>getting btfo by a bunch of poor slavs
>>70726543
How does this promote LGBT right?
Dont care.
>>70736804
>LGBT right
Piece of SHIT.
>>70733400
based iceland
>>70727149
>we cared about the safety of our astronauts
I literally burst out laughing.
