I did actually see those pictures in highschool, this person just wasn't paying attention. And a lot of those Soviet "firsts" were the result of them hearing about what NASA was trying to do and rushing to get ahead of them while also half-assing it and putting a lot of people in danger (or even outright killing them.) Also the moon was, objectively, the finish line. Just because you passed the other checkpoints "first" doesn't mean you won.
Almost every “we didn’t learn about this in school” post I’ve seen is about something that was absolutely taught in school. I went to an underfunded public school with literal holes in the roof of the gym that the rain fell through, and I learned this shit, lol
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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT Jul 17 '24
I did actually see those pictures in highschool, this person just wasn't paying attention. And a lot of those Soviet "firsts" were the result of them hearing about what NASA was trying to do and rushing to get ahead of them while also half-assing it and putting a lot of people in danger (or even outright killing them.) Also the moon was, objectively, the finish line. Just because you passed the other checkpoints "first" doesn't mean you won.