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My favourite thing about the #SpaceRace is that the urgency forced the US to make a state space program to keep up with the USSR. They had to keep the program fully state-controlled in order to prove that Capitalism is the best. I hope the irony wasn't lost on them.
@cosine I was just thinking about this the other day. I think it's really funny that the US basically takes credit for "winning" solely based on the random milestone of reaching the moon. Like reaching space first didn't count because ... the moon.
@klaatu @cosine spacewar was an extension of cold war, till the moon the soviets were winning, after the moon the US propaganda machine won
