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avmich, 11.02.2004 10:53:19:Не одни русские обсуждают, летали ли американцы на Луну. Американцы тоже не знают о многих советских космических достижениях... по сходной, видимо, причине.
The Russians beat the US a very large number of firsts in space. First satellite, first animals in space, first human in space, first safe landings from orbit, first spacewalk, first to the land a probe on Mars, first probe to Venus, first orbital station, first flight around the moon.
The whole notion that the US "won the space race" is an interesting bit of spin. The fact is that the USSR notched up a very large number of firsts and could equally argue that they won the race if the finishing line hadn't been arbitraly decided to be a manned mission to the moon (and you can bet that it wasn't the Russians who decided that that was the only feat which mattered).
The US won the cold war over the USSR, or more to the point, outlasted the USSR, because the USSR ran out of money. Ultimately the Soviet system was a poor means of running a country, so they lost their super power status... but that hardly means they lost the space race.
As Napolean said: history is a lie made up by the victors.
avmich, 11.02.2004 10:53:19:Russian Rovers on the Moon - Slashdot
An Ignorant American writes "Perusing an Air & Space magazine the other day, I came across an article about Russian Moon Rovers during the space-race era. Thanks to my American science education, I had never heard of this feat. I asked around (friends and coworkers) and nobody else I've talked... // science.slashdot.org
То есть, что хочу сказать... Не одни русские обсуждают, летали ли американцы на Луну. Американцы тоже не знают о многих советских космических достижениях... по сходной, видимо, причине.
metalius, 16.02.2004 07:00:37 :А где снимки "луноходовские" можно посмотреть?