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Just a reminder that the Soviets won the Space Race. :corn-man-khrush:
Yeah, yeah, American astronauts are still cool tho.
Soviets got there first, but Collins and the Apollo 13 astronauts have traveled further away from Earth of any other humans.
That's true, but the Soviets had a different goal. They were always more focused on getting space stations up, even during the moon program. Long term habitation and settlement, not quick purpose built moon shots was the focus. And what space infrastructure we have today is largely SU influenced.
The TKS spacecraft that was being test flow in the late 80s (and provided the core of the ISS) is still the most capable and modular spacecraft ever flown and will continue to be for the forseeable future unless Musk stops his grain silos exploding.
The Soviets had a manned TKS Venus orbital mission in the works when they fell.