Oh, merci beaucoup, America 🇺🇸

[u/TheCatInTheHatThings]

[u/CainRedfield]

Yeah Americans aren't the global heroes they think they are.

[u/Thick-Tip9255 → u/CainRedfield]

They lost the space race on every single point except the moon, where they drew a line in the sand and said "we won". Their favorite pass time is deluding themselves of their unmatched greatness. That same nationalism is now leading them down a dark path.

They simply disregarded our warnings and cringing when it came to their 'patriotism' (read: nationalism) and what it could lead to. Look wherr we are now.

To qoute a scholar from Canada: "I hate to say atoadaso, but I toadaso. I fricking atoadaso" - Ricky, Trailer Park Boys (2000s)

[u/BigL90 → u/Thick-Tip9255]

They lost the space race on every single point except the moon, where they drew a line in the sand and said "we won"

Lol, get fucked with this Russian propaganda bullshit. America won the space race, because America won the space race. In addition to the moon landing, America had tons of other "firsts". The American program was better, safer, and more successful. The Soviets had plenty of impressive accomplishments and their own host of "firsts", but your statement is absolute nonsense Russian propaganda that redditors love to spew because r/AmericaBad

[u/TheCatInTheHatThings → u/BigL90]

Okay, let’s see:

First satellite? USSR.

First man in space? USSR.

First man in orbit? USA. Congrats.

First woman in space? USSR.

First to land a rover on the moon? USSR.

First to land a man on the moon? USA. Congrats, genuinely great accomplishment.

First to land a probe on Mars? USSR.

First to land a probe on Venus? USSR.

First to land a probe on Titan? ESA.

The US accomplished some great stuff, but they almost ALWAYS came second.

[u/BigL90 → u/TheCatInTheHatThings]

• first solar-powered satellite

• first satellite in polar orbit

• first photograph of earth from orbit

• first satellite recovered intact from orbit

• first great ape in orbit

• first human-controlled spaceflight (Alan Shepard)

• first successful manned re-entry and landing

• first successful planetary flyby mission (venus)

• first spaceplane

• first geosynchronous satellite

• first geostationary satellite

• first piloted orbit change

• first successful mars flyby mission

• first mara lander

• first rendezvous of manned spacecraft first spacecraft docking

• first space launch from another celestial body

• first spacecraft to orbit another planet

• first mission in the asteroid belt

• first jupiter flyby

• first mercury flyby

• first Saturn flyby

• first untethered spacewalk

• first uranus flyby

• first neptune flyby

• first object to leave the solar system

Oh yeah, and literally everything the Soviets did do first, the US did, and better, and with purpose of building to further advancements. You can cherry pick Soviet "firsts" all you want and try and downplay the American achievements. It changes nothing about the fact that the American space program was by any measure more successful, impactful, and technically more impressive.

The whole "America got to the moon first and declared the space race over, after the Soviets got all the firsts" is stupid Russian propaganda that everyone with an axe to grind against the US loves to spout despite it having no leg to stand on. America didn't declare the space race over after the moon landing. The Soviets did.