• untoasted@toast.ooo
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    2 months ago

    The ussr managed to get nearly all of the firsts in the space race while spending less than a tenth of what the US spent to lose nearly all of the firsts in the space race.

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      2 months ago

      Cool cool what did that earn them by the 70s? How well off were they into the 80s? Switching to oligarchy capitalism didn’t help them, though, they still used the Energia Engines from 1988 until 2017, but where they really struggled was Chemistry and Medicine.