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by bamboozled 718 days ago
Except the US actually made it to the moon with functional equipment and not Ekranoplanz.
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The soviets put the first satellite and man in space, so I bet they had functional equipment too
First woman in space too, and a very long list of other firsts some of which remain untouched by anyone else (eg landing in the surface of Venus and sending digital pictures back). Valentina Tereshkova went to space in 1963, at a time when women in the US had to ask their husband’s permission to open a bank account.
They did not get to the moon though did they, which is what we were discussing.