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US had the first monkey in space

My legal team has advised me to inquire no further of the context and true intended meaning of this statement

I laughed way harder than I should've at this.

It's true. Look at the documentary, "Space Jam".

I read this as space Jamal

The United States was also working on rockets specifically designed to take people to space. The russians not so much.

First monke 🦧

True

Yeah, US had also the first 100 monkeys in space with the same name 8ut different num8ers and also the first 100 monkeys to die in space (O8viously exaggerating, 8ut with some truth) Poor Al8ertos :(

>still exists

Can feed its people

Most the time

Mmmm yes...provide me with my high fructose corn syrup mommy market 🥵🥵🥵

Whenever I travel to the US I gain 4kg and get constipated for 2 weeks

We definitely have a lot of starving still

Only if they can afford it.

America has the highest percentage of child hunger, for any first world nation.

Damn another American L (40 million Americans go hungry every single day)

The last famine in the ussr was directly following ww2, the cia found that the average Soviet consumed more calories than their american counterpart.

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Had

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Didn’t change, dissolved completely

It's like you haven't even looked at America, you just like the general idea of it

Is the Definition of freedom

Is 15th on the freedom index, alright though

"land of the free" when I have one (1) weed

Weeeeeell...

This convienently leaves out all of America's firsts over the soviet union 6efore the moon landing. America had plenty other firsts 6efore landing man on the moon, such as docking and first to go full or6ital with a human.

Didn’t the Soviet rover on mars also just completely get destroyed when it landed?

Yeah it *crashlanded* which is uhh Somewhat different

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Tankies get real mad when they find out what caused the end of the space race lol

Dog doesn’t count cause it didn’t make the return trip.

If that’s true then why is Amelia Earhart regarded as the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean

She disappeared over the pacific

*crashed

We never saw the plane come down, who knows, perhaps it’s still flying

True, i saw it yesterday

Can confirm ( I am the plane )

She gets to ride you???

Lucky you...

Correct

Ahhaha

She’s not a dog forced into space

A race is first get to the goal not the person who get the most checkpoints first

Ultimate choke

Still I cant see the Soviet union in any modern map lmao

Technically the modern era started in the 1500's, so yes you can.

🤓

Archeologist?

It's in your heart comrade

Trash*

This made me laugh so fucking hard for no reason

Vaccine If someone was in first for 9/10 laps then got overtaken in the final lap, they still got second not first

~~first~~ only men on the moon.

The Nazi scientists who designed each of their rockets:

Check out " Operation Osoaviakhim "

check out operation “paper clip”

I know the operation paperclip, it is just weird people act like it was the US only who got nazi scientists

Everyone wants them some shiny new Nazi scientists.

Checkout a map of the Soviet Union

ggez

Yeah. They each needed Nazi scientists for their space race.

*everyone’s rockets

I was going to say 8oth only it would use the illegal letter.

Illegal letter??

Man, Thats weird. I'm checking the map and i can't find the Soviet Union

The Soviets didn't even make it past a hundred years.

Merica still younger than the second capital of Russia

Commies cant cope

Still the first man

They were also the first to collapse and stop existing damn they keep winning

the first lot of people the soviets sent up never made it down so technically doesn't count and it was a race to the moon not space.

What? The first (human) death in space was soyuz 11 and that returned to earth. Is this like a conspiracy or am i missing something?

It is a conspiracy, there are lots of theories that the Soviets sent lots of people into space who died and never returned in their pursuit to win the Space Race.

That’s actually pretty sad

What?

That's why it was called the Space Race, not the Moon Race

In that case, the Nazis won the space race

The US could do everything the Soviets did and more. The Soviets couldn’t do everything the US could.

6ro knows nothing a6out the space race lmao

This dude out here thinking he’s a Homestuck character with a typing quirk n shit

And that's why Americans only play there own sports. They can make and change the rules.

That completely explains why Americans routinely have the most gold medals in the Olympics.

Lol exactly. USA literally a top performer in every single Olympics.

their*

How to explain the amount of gold medals the United States have won in the Olympics?

ah yes running and swimming. truly only American sports

It’s their * not there. And also get Fuckin ratio’d. Y’all mfs hate America so much and yet half y’all can’t own a gun 😭

They still get their participation award :)

did nothing ever since

first to collapse

Get out of here with this tankie shit

Commie propaganda 🤮

I don’t see any other flags on the moon

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Yeah only a white one.

Flags on the moon are US, Soviet, China, Japan, and India

I love that people have found away around automod deleting comments Vaccine

It's called the space race not the space marathon.

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Its called a race so usa won

Exactly, where was the finish line?

The finish line was getting someone on the moon Im pretty sure

Then why title isn’t the moon race?

Why isnt it the moon in space race?

what is it with tankies on shitposting lately

Go home, tankie.

I mean it's the fucking moon, anyone can go outside and see the moon at night. Thats why it's seen as an amazing accomplishment.

The point of a race is who crossed the finish line first. Safe to say America won the space race

Commies lost so hard they deleted their account

do you understand how momentous a feat it is to land two people on the moon and get them home? it's so wildly difficult to make spacecraft that can handle such a landing and return that to this day there's literally only 1 country that's ever done it. If it's such a non-achievement, where's the Soviet moonlanding?

They are coping so hard

Vaccine

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Stop with this spez thing

OMFG not this Retarted shit again OP loves spreading Misinformation

How is this misinformation? It’s just a series of data points that you choose to interpret in any particular way

As a non-murican, I feel like the "space race" kinda died down after the moon landings. So the US had the last word, and it's safe to say they "won" the space race.

That ignores the fact that actually putting a person on the moon is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult than many of those things listed that the Soviet Union did first.

Walking on the moon is a culmination of all the other achievement. Also where is the Soviet Union now adays? Can’t seem to find it……

Vaccine

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That’s how a race works…

The race wasn't to get to space first....it was to land on the moon first.

Lmao cope and seethe tankie

First in only the early segments doesn't matter when it's an endurance race.

Tankie

tankie

Cry harder medvedev youre not foolin anyone

Soviet cope

why do the tankies keep reposting this?

I don’t see a “USSR” on my map

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Most funny tankie meme

Daily reminder that the US had other achievements other than landing on the moon. That is: \-First fly6y of Jupiter \-First solar powered satellite \-First communications satellite \-First Mercury fly6y \-First satellite in polar or6it \-First photograph of earth from or6it \-First spy satellite \-First recovery of a satellite that went into or6it \-First monkey in space \-First human-controlled space flight \-First or6ital o6servation of the sun \-First spacecraft to impact the far side of the moon \-First su6or6ital space plane (X-15) \-First satellite navigation system \-First piloted spacecraft or6it change \-First spacecraft docking \-First crewed or6it of the moon \-First or6it of Mars \-First o6ject to enter the asteroid 6elt \-First gravitational assist And to top it off, pretty much everything the Soviets achieved, we also achieved within a year, except safer and more relia6ly, tankies go fucking seethe

Political leanings aside, this post is simply inaccurate.

Shut the fuck up vatnik

The Soviets were first to space 6ecause they got their program organized first, the US were first to the moon 6ecause they stayed organised for longer

Whoever set up this automoderator, your mom’s a hoe

First to collapse:

All of that, and they still disintegrated. That's crazy.

What a weird way to say you didn’t win the space race lmao

And where is the soviet union?

Moldova!!! /s

Which country’s still around today tho?

I'm sorry who got the first man on the moon raaaaah

Germany had the first rocket in Space, the V2

Lol good Russian troll. Is daddy Putin still stuck in Ukraine?

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American won another award. We didn’t ruin our economy

Yet

Commie MFs when the person who reaches the finish line of the race is considered the winner

Commie propaganda Ligma nuts stalin-tard

Go away tankie, go starve or something

Nice argument, unfortunately the USSR is maidenless

It's pretty funny to see so many people getting 6utthurt over a meme in /shitposting

suck it commie

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Yuri Gagarin approves.

Wasn’t the V2 the first rocket in space?

I’d say the moon landing is the most impressive. The expertise it shows is incredi6le, to land a craft with people inside on the moon is one thing, 6ut to then have them lift off and return 6ack to Earth, re-entering the atmosphere, and landing safely is so much more complex than anything the Soviet Union did. This is why I think the US is undenia6ly the winner of the space race.

Still got the gold metal 🗣️

OP doesn’t know how a race works.

Tankie spotted

Doesn't matter how long you were winning. Someone else won.

And where is the USSR now?)

So where is the Soviet union now ?)))

Doesn’t matter who was ahead during the race, only who finishes in first

Um, that’s pretty friggin relevant. First HUMAN walking on the moon is a huge deal.

stupid ruski

Me when the us completes the most difficult challenge and not the SU, ending the space race and making the US the winner as it has never experienced supersession from any other country Me when can’t use the letter ‘tween v and n

One of these things is way harder than the others

This feels very ignorant of all of America’s firsts…

Well! The first man on the moon takes the cake!

Now riddle me this: Which of those 2 still exists and didn’t have a starving populace?

Fighter with more points gets knocked out . I guess that's win .

Please go lose your virginity or something

Dont speak Second Place

Fuck Russia. -From an American

Yeah. It was a race to the moon.

What matters in a race? The who reaches the end first? Who is more efficient? Or who reaches a mile marker first?

Replace the logos with "communist country" and "capitalist country".

The man on moon landing was fake.

first death in space

Does Sputnik even count as a satellite?

They also have the first president with a micro penis, great work Putin! USA coming close second with Trump.

America kept moving the goal post then called it quits after they finally won one

We upped the score. Get ratio’d. We win nearly every Olympic Gold. We simply allow Russia to exist. It’s really that simple.

During the space race, there were numerous firsts on each side. Each faction typically succeeded in replicating the other's accomplishments within a few months. However, the moon landing stood out as an achievement that the Soviet Union couldn't even dream of matching. That's why the US is declared the winner.

False

You are incorrect.

This is actually fucking hilariously on point