well, US didn&#x27;t win anything (= lost it all to CCCP) in &quot;space race&quot;, apart from sending manned mission to moon, in which it was alone in the &quot;race&quot; :) (to be fair, that was much harder than just shooting 1 guy to orbit few hundred kms above).<p>but try to sell that loss to general US public desperate to feel superior and &quot;winning&quot; in sixties, hence the current &quot;opinion&quot;, aka self-lie regardless of facts.