Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Yuri Gagarin: The first man in space - BBC News" video.

  1. Also German scientists and prototypes of Fau rockets helped to the Soviets. But I think that Soviet scientist Korolev could make rocket by himself, if he wasn't sent to gulag in 1941-1950, he planned some rockets in 1940...
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  2. Here it is also important to understand how the space race ended in the mid-70s. The USSR brought nuclear weapons into space, after which the United States announced the end of the space race. Both sides announced their victory, and the American astronaut shook hands with the Soviet cosmonaut in outer space. After that, the United States reduced several times the number of its satellite and rocket launches, and also closed many projects. Thus, in the second half of the 70s and all 80s, the United States was inferior to the USSR in the number of launches several times, while before that they were on a par with each other. Draw conclusions.
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