USSR was all about getting the title of being first,
no matter how superficial the achievement,
and how dangerous the approach, and sometimes,
hiding the truth about it until decades later.
First artificial satellite was achieved by the USSR.
It did pretty much nothing but beep,
and its orbit decayed quite quickly.
The American first artificial satellite orbited for years,
carried a science payload and discovered the Van Allen radiation.
The first picture in space was taken by USA through a modified missile on suborbital flight.
USSR took the first photos of lunar far side
through Luna 3 with camera technology
obtained from fallen US spy balloons!
Some of very first animals intentionally put into in space was Rhesus monkey
aboard a German V2 operated by the USA.
First animal into orbit was achieved with a dog by the USSR,
which died due to a cooling system failure,
and so is a glorified animal abuse.
USA put the first chimpanzees and apes into space that survived and landed,
the former occurred much earlier than Laika.


The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin of the USSR,
but he was forced to eject prior to landing,
and under the terms agreed meant his mission was technically a failure;
or an "uncompleted spaceflight"
per Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definitions.
This was kept secret by the USSR for decades.
The first American in space landed successfully with his capsule,
while being the first to really pilot his spacecraft.
Going by the same logic, as in turn NASA Project Mercury missions all landed on water
(splashdown) instead of land,
USAF Joe Walker is the first to land in a spacecraft on hard ground,
in an X-15.
First woman in space was a clear USSR "first"
that they were targeting.
The USA had a policy of only accepting military test pilots,
of which there were no women.
The first space walk was demonstrated by the USSR,
but it came close to disaster as the cosmonaut could not reenter
the spacecraft due to his suit inflating due to the pressure differential,
and had to bleed out air in order to be able
to squeeze back into the hatch.
USA first space walk went without such problems,
and quickly overtook the USSR in pioneering how spacewalks would be performed, and how
to do useful work.
It also claims the first untethered spacewalk.
First orbital rendezvous was claimed by the USSR,
but was achieved merely by launching two rockets at the right time.
The two space craft were kilometers apart, and had no way of getting close to each
other,
or no knowledge of how to do it.
The first rendezvous performed by the USA used orbital mechanics and deliberate maneuvers
to have two Gemini spacecraft find each other, fly in formation, and then go their
separate ways.
The first docking was achieved by the USA during the Gemini program.
First docking for the purposes of crew transfer between
two spacecraft was achieved by the USSR.
The crew transfer was done via external spacewalk, and served in claiming another
first.
The re-entry nearly ended in complete disaster and had a hard landing.
USA first docking and crew transfer was achieved between an internally pressurized
corridor during Apollo 9.
First picture of the far side of the moon was achieved by the USSR,
and is a very low quality image.
Shortly after the USA began a complete mapping survey of the entire lunar surface.
The first automated lunar return sample was achieved by the USSR, but was effectively a few grams
of dust.
The USA returned tones of different kinds of individually selected moon rock.
The USSR lunar landing mission consisted of an external spacewalk
to transfer a single cosmonaut to a tiny one man lander with just enough provisions
to make some boot prints before trying to get back home.
Again, just to be able to claim a first.
The USA lunar landing missions thrived on the moon,
taking down two astronauts and resulted in them being to stay on the surface for days,
and even drive around on it in a car.
Once the USSR lost the moon race,
they instantly lost all interest in it, and focused on creating a space station.
There iss a familiar pattern to all of this.
The USSR did the very minimum,
often at the expense of safety to meet an arbitrary goal as soon as possible.
The USA failures and mishaps were all in the public eye.
The USSRs were mostly kept secret.
Both nations knew landing on the moon was going to be the finish line.
The USA got there first, and did not just hit the finish line gasping
and wheezing as the USSR would have been,
but came through it in complete comfort and style,
before doing it a few more times with greater and greater
challenges for good measure.
As for space stations, missions to Salyut 1 were plagued with failures
with one even resulting with the death of crews upon re-entry
while USA launched an almost functional boilerplate
space station OPS 0855 earlier than Salyut.
After all, Skylab 2 was the first completely successful space station mission.
Since NASA lost its original purpose (beat the Russians to the moon)
it has lost its way a bit, but companies like SpaceX have actually
managed to make the point of the space race better than Apollo did.
The original space race was supposed to demonstrate private enterprise and the American
way of life vs centralized government control,
but the Apollo program was not private enterprise,
and was under direct government control. SpaceX, Blue Origin, RocketLab and others
are the true demonstration of commercial spaceflight, where the government agency NASA
now just becomes a customer
to private launch and even spacecraft providers.
The USA won in the 60s,
and it is absolutely winning now versus anything Russia
or Europe is building with public funds.


Similarly, Russian explorer Fabian von Bellinghausen
is not really the first to see Antarctica,
because on February 7 (19), 1819,
William Smith while sailing cargo on the English merchant vessel "The Williams" observed the
South Shetland Islands
that are part of the Antarctic continent.
On January 18 (30) 1820, the crew of the same vessel under
the command of Edward Bransfield in the presence
of Smith observed the mainland Antarctica
– Mount Bransfield in the very north of Antarctic Peninsula.
Judging by the recorded evidence,
Bransfield and Smith
guessed that they observed the continent shore.
Furthermore, Antarctica revealed itself only collectively,
slowly and gradually to multiple explorers,
rather than in a single swoop to Bellinghausen.
By the same way, ChatGPT said that in the realm of aviation,
Valery Chkalovs non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver in 1937
was initially not recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
due to a technicality regarding the definition of a "non-stop" flight.
In the field of medicine,
Ivan Pavlovs research on classical conditioning
has been questioned by some
who argue that
the American psychologist Edward Thorndike
independently discovered the same phenomenon.
Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment was not an original work,
but rather an imitation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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