Quote:<p><i></i><i>It’s been half a century since the United States finally dusted Russia in the space race, as NASA’s Gemini program ticked off an unprecedented series of long-duration flights, spacewalks, and in-space rendezvous to put America firmly on course to the Moon.</i><i></i><p>It&#x27;s very questionable. USSR launched 2 Sputniks first, then the first man. Regarding Apollo mission: USSR didn&#x27;t participate in manned lunar mission race.<p>Moreover the goal of the space race was not about a manned mission to the Moon, but about the supremacy in space, so things are more complicated.
Russians had Voskhod programme, US had Gemini. USSR more focused on Venus, US - on Mars, etc.