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@Bluegillbronco2 3 years ago

I would argue that when the Soviets lost the race to the moon they were basically forced to take the focus away from the space program. Because then they would have to admit that they tried to send cosmonauts to the moon and failed. And later when they started focusing on space stations it didn't have quite the same propaganda value as all of the initial firsts.

@stischer47 3 years ago

I can remember the launch of Sputnik and its effect on us in my school. While the adults were worrying about Soviet technologic superiority, my classmates and I were awestruck by the chance to go into space. Once into junior high, I found my first science fiction book (Missing Men of Saturn which the librarian gave me I checked it out so many times...still have it).

@andyreznick 3 years ago (edited)

I always felt that the Soviet space program was the Soviet Union's one really bright spot. The space race visibly pushed us ahead as a species. It was a transnational competition that didn't involve killing off or displacing a couple of hundred thousand or millions of people for a change; something between sports and war.
In the 60's, when kids were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, for the first time ever in history they could actually answer: Astronaut/Cosmonaut. I know I did in 1961 when asked in Miss Funky's Kindergarten class (really, that was her name, poor thing). Closest I ever got was driving by Goddard, mind you.
Thanks David, for another excellent presentation. Appreciate your work. I'd say, in all, we all won the space race, in both achievement and inspiration.

@old-moose 3 years ago

I remember the in MAD magazine (I think) had the joke: "A cosmonaut returns to Earth and says 'I've seen God. First of all, she's black.' "

@petergeyer7584 3 years ago

I live in the former East Berlin. There used to be a bar/restaurant in my neighborhood called Gagarin, after the Soviet Cosmonaut. It was filled with wonderful Soviet-era pictures and relics from the space race. My absolute favorite bar in the city, until Covid killed it.

@J.SkulkingBushwack 11 months ago

I have deep respect for all pilots and the ground crew too.

@odysseusrex5908 3 years ago

All of the cosmonauts knew that Soyuz 1 was likely to be a suicide mission. Gagarin suited up that day and tried to go in Komorov's place.

@kaptenhiu5623 3 years ago

It doesnt matter who's the first to space as long as humanity wins!

@wrightmf 11 months ago

What is interesting is when Yuriy Gagarin presented by Krushchev at Red Square where instead of usual old guys who never smiled in 30 years, we see a 20-something with a charming smile.

While young people were encouraged to pursue the image of Gagarin, almost all are stuck or will stuck working on a collective farm or a generic factory job from the rest of their lives.

That film about Korolev "Taming of the Fire" is something I got to see.

@ca.elizabeth 3 years ago

I have quite a collection of soviet stamps dedicated to interkosmos, roskosmos and any other space race related occasion. Thanks, my soviet dad for collecting them! As a kid I loved those stamps A LOT. To be honest they are still my favourite. The glory and the hype of the space race is reflected very well in them.

@nicholaskelly6375 3 years ago

My late father Maurice Kelly was very keen on the Soviet Space Programme and through friends in the USSR he managed to obtain several very interesting publications on the subject.
When you think of classic science fiction films 'Solaris' has to be one of the finest examples of the genre.
Certainly it is on a par with '2001 A Space Odessey' The concepts in the film being extremely interesting and thought provoking.

@alexanderakh4955 3 years ago

Thank you! Really, as I child I remember that space was still popular thing in the 80s, technical magazines were really highly popular as they were of high quality and utility value and published articles about technical achievements of the West being a kind of window in the different world, science fiction books and movies were highly popular, but I think this was the case elsewhere in the West.

@homoe7976 3 years ago

Gagarin might not have been a perfect new soviet sugar boy, but you certainly are!

@ParabellumHistory 3 years ago

I lived in the UK for a while. The first thing to caught my eye was at the Liverpool airport, there was a plaque commeorating the time Gagarin's visit to the city after being in outer space

@samwill7259 3 years ago

Reminder.
The Soviet reaction to the moon landing
Was WAY more friendly than the American reaction to sputnik

@scottkrater2131 3 years ago (edited)

Breznhev has a look on his face like. Don't get too comfortable Comrade Nikita, I'll be running the show soon.

@karacop78 3 years ago

There is another influence photographers know very well. "Helios", "Jupiter", "Mir" were some of the branding of photo lenses during that era. It is interesting to note that they were on par or better than western lenses until the late '60s, when soviet space program started to decline.

@Yassified3425 3 years ago

The City of Riga actually requested a name change to Gagarin or something like that in honor of the victory in the space race, but it was thankfully denied by Moscow.