"You don't choose the place you love"

[Serb]

You are right. Period.

[Serb]

I withdraw my "PWNed" argument.

[Serb]

especially if the spacerace is regarded to have ended with the Soyuz-Apollo cooperation.

Imagine what could we achieved working together?!!!

[Serb]

Humans are stupid!

[Serb]

look, I can certainly respect claiming the USSR won the overall space race, especially if the spacerace is regarded to have ended with the Soyuz-Apollo cooperation. But there is no way the victory could be described as "PWNed". What's the longest the US ever took to match a given USSR first? Less than 2 years? Usually just few months? The space race was close Serb. Look how long it took for number 3 competitor in any of the individual space race contests.

Look, with all my respect for the American achievements in space flight (I really respect you for that), I wouldn't be myself, if I wont share this picture with you




I am Serb - a Siberian troll, so I just can't resist!

[My Wife Hates CIV]

first craft on mars? which one was that?

first moon landing - if you want to call it that, which i do not. the Soviet Union performed the first hard Moon landing – "hard" meaning the spacecraft intentionally crashes into the Moon. As they had no idea how to really land.

Venus - those were cool. not an easy place to visit. still...

but really now... the US (as always) rules in space. but nice pic serb.

[Serb]

first craft on mars? which one was that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_program

but really now... the US (as always) rules in space. but nice pic serb.

You have sucked big balls, but now are leading.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

a series of rushed failed attempts. sounds like current invasion we are seeing today. Viking 1, USA. Mars 3 ... Contact lost 20 seconds after transmission started, 110 seconds after landing. i bet it took 110 seconds to figure out it crashed. but nice try.

[Serb]

Wanna compare death ratio between American astranauts and Soviet/Russian cosmonauts to find out whose spaceships are more reliable and more safe?

[Serb]

Or you better just fk-up and get some booze in your nuclear sheleter you have build on case of Russian initiated Armageddon?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

sure. lets start with the Nedelin catastrophe

[My Wife Hates CIV]

or - this - Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev, the only three people to die in space.

[Serb]

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BF%D0%BE% D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B1%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D 1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0% B2#:~:text=%D0%9F%D0%BE%20%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82 %D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8E%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%2031 %20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F,%D0%B2%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82% D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8 %D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%2018%20%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE %D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA.


USSR/Russia - 5
USA - 18

[Geronimo]

or - this - Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev, the only three people to die in space.

So? Compare deaths per man/hour in space or deaths per person launched to space. Russia had a better safety record thanks largely to the 2 shuttle disasters and to a decent manned launch vehicle in soyuz.

[Serb]

For your information, Neil Armstrong and and Buzz Aldrin had left a memo tablet on the Moon with names of all HUMAN space farers (both American and Soviet), who had died to the moment of their landing. The first name in the list was Yuri Gagarin (who had died in an air crush one year before their landing on the Moon). That was a sign of respect, which still causes nothing, but respect!
Unlike us (idiots) now, those people really respected each other, despite being competitors.