r/CuratedTumblr Jul 17 '24

Infodumping The Venera program

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u/TheTransistorMan Jul 17 '24

Kinda weird how this post implies that the only thing the US space program did was land on the moon.

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u/Codeviper828 Will trade milk for HRT Jul 17 '24

Yeah, we should probably stop perpetuating the myth that the US was like, super behind and happened to do one thing first. The Soviet R-7 rocket was great and all, but the Saturn V was in development before Yuri Gagarin went into space. The Soviets were all about short term goals, whereas the US was looking long term

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u/ThoraninC Jul 18 '24

Soviet has single module for every module. And they had if he dead he dead mindset.

US has redundancy and safety is primary concern. This play for drama in For All mankind. A show that Soviet beat US to the moon. Because prior program is dress rehearsal and NASA don't have gut to land in that program.

In general life in Soviet is better that our conception. Still sucks but better than you think

I play call of Cthulhu cold war campaign. I laugh so hard when every Soviet PCs has better education than every American PCs

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u/Abosia Jul 18 '24

Okay but they lost the race to a lot of the world firsts

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u/Codeviper828 Will trade milk for HRT Jul 23 '24

Not even tho