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America Chose Not to Beat Sputnik into Space

by tacon on 3/19/25, 4:51 PM with 6 comments

  • by rayiner on 3/19/25, 8:05 PM

    This seems apocryphal. I did a paper on this subject in college, and the Soviets beat us to every space race milestone. They would’ve beaten us to the moon as well, if it wasn’t for the death in 1966 of Sergei Korolev.