“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!” -Yuri Gagarin, First man in space. Edit about this comment section: I saw after scrolling down a bit that people are getting angry that Americans (like myself) are neglectful of soviet work in space, If you are one of these people please shut up, you should be seeing space exploration as a combined effort by humanity to get out of our watery cradle and into the stars and beyond as a species and not as countries or entities. This is also basically the reason that international space cooperation such as on the ISS exists. Overall I'd just like to say that you should see space as a challenge for our species that will be solved and not simply a matter of propoganda or nationalism/patriotism.
First to orbit: USSR First to put a living creature in orbit: USSR First to get pictures of the far side of the moon: USSR First person in space: USSR First _woman_ in space: USSR First spacewalk: USSR First moon landing: USSR First interplanetary landing: USSR (Venus) First space station: USSR First mars lander: USSR The _only_ thing that the US did first was put a man on the moon. As impressive as that is... the USSR beat them to the draw pretty much every time, before and after that.
First Satellite to send scientific data: USA First Solar Powered Satellite: USA First Geosynchronous Orbit:USA First Rendezvous between spacecraft: USA First docking between spacecraft: USA First crewed flight to the Moon:USA First crewed landing in space:USA First Lunar Samples to return to Earth:USA First data from the surface of Mars: USA First probes to Mercury, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: USA First interstellar probe: USA The soviets stopped being the leader in space exploration in 1965. Their last major first was Voskhod 2( you could also argue Luna 9). After that the highly successful Gemini program combined with the fact the early Soyuz program was riddled with all sorts of problems meant that the Soviets had fallen behind. Even 50+ years later Manny of the US's firsts have yet to be matched by any nation. So, in the long run, who really won the space race? There are 2 sides to every story my friend. Both programs nations had triumphant firsts that pushed humanity further than ever before.
While I agreed we all should get great credit from the Soviets for a lot of achievements, US did a lot of firsts and achievements too and we shouldn't downplay or ignore any of them either. And yes in long run, the Soviets lost their momentum compared to the first half of the race (Korolev's death, internal shenanigans, lacks funding, and important technologies (computer and others).
This makes me want to cry. I am russian and all my life I have been into aerospace. Knowing what Russia has become today makes me want to throw up. Sure, the USSR was ABOSOLUTELY far from perfect, but the country had a precise ideology and real hopes and dreams that fueled the fantasies of the people. The fact that the soviets engineers could pioneer something as hard as space for so long with limited ressources and constant abuse by their superiors really shows the sheer motivation by which they were moved. Glory to aerospace engineers from all around the world. Thank you for keeping this dream alive.
Сейчас тоже много достижений в космосе, просто об этом никто не говорит,вообще ничего не говорят ,то есть ни по новостям, как будто это секретно. но если за этим следить, думаю Роскосмос удивит вас своими проектами Я например, в афиге отнекоторых)
Managing to put a man in space 20 years after a devastating war and before manufacturing toilet paper on an industrial scale shows what a country can achieve when totally focused on it.
Congratulations @Bluegillbronco2 for 100k views on this video. I've been watching this video when it had just 3-4k views. The simplicity of this edit is its beauty. The way you portrayed successive events in the form of photos and videos is my favorite.
This was the most useful race for both countries and for the whole humanity. And it is hard to imagine which breakthroughs we would see if all countries united to explore space together, as earthlings.
@@foxrotneinnein1968погрязшие в коррупции госкорпорации не стоят и пальца на ноге что некогда было создано ушедшей эпохой p.s я не фанат Советского союза, мультикультурализма и т.п
What a beautiful and peaceful country. If only we could turn back the clock to relive this moment all over again and no war. Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary.
As an American I disagree. Consider a race with 2 halves. Opponent A has a strong lead in the first half. But in the second Opponent B takes the lead. A lead so great that opponent A is so embarrassed they straight up lie about not competing in the second half. The fact is the Americans matched every Soviet first in space(often mere months after the USSR first achieved them). But so far no one has been able to match the achievement that was the Apollo Program. 50+ years on and the only country even close to having that capability of sending people to the moon is.... The USA. If you arbitrarily draw the finish line at the end of 1965, sure the Soviets won the space race. But the race continues in after that...
@@Bluegillbronco2 i find ur opinion very subjective, respectfully. In the same sense one could say each space mission is a different programme, different effort put into it, different result. And the soviets won all but one operations. No need to go against technological superiority of the ussr
@@rizzospastis The soviets most certainly did not win "all but 1 operations". The Americans had plenty of firsts.( Many of which have yet to be challenged). Also: The entire point of the space race was to measure the technological supremacy of the 2 super powers. And since I subscribe to the idea the Americans won the space race, then I also subscribe to the idea that the space race demonstrated the technical superiority of the USA over the СССР.(To an extent). Sure I am obviously biased toward the side of my homeland. But that doesn't mean I can't t respect or honor the efforts the other side made in the space race. In fact that's largely why I made this video.
I’m glad that a tyrannical regime that slaughtered 50 million of its own citizens has been cast into the dustbin of history and the territories it once occupied now free, thriving democracies.
Ну во-первых СССР уделял очень много внимания космосу. Космическая гонка с США, как никак. Загугли список космических запусков России, допустим, за 2023 год. Много нового узнаешь ;) Понятное дело, общественности выгоднее и приятнее будет обращать внимание на промахи. И ничего удивительного нет в неудаче. Почти 50 лет Россия не притрагивалась к Луне.
no one is right as time tends to 1965 America wins before that USSR won but if year tends to infinity it's always 1/2 means everybody won not only two countries but any two countries won that two can be any two countries atleast according to me. 😶
his name was Vladimir Komarov, he died because the e spaceship parachute was faulty and did not open, his body was left with disfigured remains that were buried in the walls of the Kremlin wall
USSR and rest of the world: Let's Yuri tour as he was the First Man in Space USA: Doesn't let him in the country then praise their own Space Program when they get a man in space
Like it or not Stalin made a lot of the early decisions regarding the early space program. His purges would also go on to have consequences for the development of rocket technology. I am only just realizing it now but I should have included Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and probably even Gorbachev in the video.
Oh my God, bloody dictator, what a nightmare! -_- You could look at the number of prisoners in the USA and in the USSR in different years, compare. Not the figures that Solzhenitsyn and other Perestroika figures came up with out of nowhere, but those that have at least some justification. You could take the Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov study as an example, although there are a number of questions about it, but at least it doesn't look like complete nonsense. But no, it's too complicated for most... If anything, I don't want to start an argument about reprisals, I just recommend that you read this issue more carefully.
⭐️🚩🚀❤️👍
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I replied @@Mubashar783
“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!” -Yuri Gagarin, First man in space.
Edit about this comment section: I saw after scrolling down a bit that people are getting angry that Americans (like myself) are neglectful of soviet work in space, If you are one of these people please shut up, you should be seeing space exploration as a combined effort by humanity to get out of our watery cradle and into the stars and beyond as a species and not as countries or entities. This is also basically the reason that international space cooperation such as on the ISS exists. Overall I'd just like to say that you should see space as a challenge for our species that will be solved and not simply a matter of propoganda or nationalism/patriotism.
I hope his words will end up being true, but I know It's now only a dream about to be true but yet there are a few things to do before we can catch it
@@NotsoBussy This is my dream too. As a result, we will unite as a world and make our planet a better place!
May his soul have peace
Здесь бы прав
Ты
First to orbit: USSR
First to put a living creature in orbit: USSR
First to get pictures of the far side of the moon: USSR
First person in space: USSR
First _woman_ in space: USSR
First spacewalk: USSR
First moon landing: USSR
First interplanetary landing: USSR (Venus)
First space station: USSR
First mars lander: USSR
The _only_ thing that the US did first was put a man on the moon. As impressive as that is... the USSR beat them to the draw pretty much every time, before and after that.
First Satellite to send scientific data: USA
First Solar Powered Satellite: USA
First Geosynchronous Orbit:USA
First Rendezvous between spacecraft: USA
First docking between spacecraft: USA
First crewed flight to the Moon:USA
First crewed landing in space:USA
First Lunar Samples to return to Earth:USA
First data from the surface of Mars: USA
First probes to Mercury, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto: USA
First interstellar probe: USA
The soviets stopped being the leader in space exploration in 1965. Their last major first was Voskhod 2( you could also argue Luna 9). After that the highly successful Gemini program combined with the fact the early Soyuz program was riddled with all sorts of problems meant that the Soviets had fallen behind. Even 50+ years later Manny of the US's firsts have yet to be matched by any nation. So, in the long run, who really won the space race?
There are 2 sides to every story my friend. Both programs nations had triumphant firsts that pushed humanity further than ever before.
While I agreed we all should get great credit from the Soviets for a lot of achievements, US did a lot of firsts and achievements too and we shouldn't downplay or ignore any of them either.
And yes in long run, the Soviets lost their momentum compared to the first half of the race (Korolev's death, internal shenanigans, lacks funding, and important technologies (computer and others).
@@Bluegillbronco2 🤣but in 21st century US losing against Chinese space agency.....Nasa failing constantly....
@@DOSFS now Chinese Winning against US space agency
@@Bluegillbronco2 Nasa losing its glory.....
Look how China beating Nasa in every aspect without any nation support....
This makes me want to cry. I am russian and all my life I have been into aerospace. Knowing what Russia has become today makes me want to throw up. Sure, the USSR was ABOSOLUTELY far from perfect, but the country had a precise ideology and real hopes and dreams that fueled the fantasies of the people. The fact that the soviets engineers could pioneer something as hard as space for so long with limited ressources and constant abuse by their superiors really shows the sheer motivation by which they were moved.
Glory to aerospace engineers from all around the world. Thank you for keeping this dream alive.
Glory to the Soviet Republics, may the ideals who pushed your people forward flourish again in a new renaissance
Сейчас тоже много достижений в космосе, просто об этом никто не говорит,вообще ничего не говорят ,то есть ни по новостям, как будто это секретно. но если за этим следить, думаю Роскосмос удивит вас своими проектами
Я например, в афиге отнекоторых)
Managing to put a man in space 20 years after a devastating war and before manufacturing toilet paper on an industrial scale shows what a country can achieve when totally focused on it.
It's an old myth.
@@DVXDemetrivsthen explain why it’s false?
@@cubix015 Because shopping catalogs with toilet paper there have been mentions of it since the 30s...
Congratulations @Bluegillbronco2 for 100k views on this video. I've been watching this video when it had just 3-4k views. The simplicity of this edit is its beauty. The way you portrayed successive events in the form of photos and videos is my favorite.
The red space pioneers
Gagarin is our hero
RIP Yuri Gargarin
In Vietnam: Pham Tuan is our astronaut hero
We also have German Titov, who go to space with Pham Tuan, has been named for a island in Ha Long Bay.
@@vunguyenchan6166I thought it was a Swedish guy
Best edit on soviet space program
Thank you so much!
@@aaradhykulwrdhansingh little dark age instrumental
@@JaquaviousDamian thanks brother
This was the most useful race for both countries and for the whole humanity.
And it is hard to imagine which breakthroughs we would see if all countries united to explore space together, as earthlings.
The Russians were geniuses in the field of space exploration
I hope that Roscosmos will get back to it's predecessor's glorious days
@@foxrotneinnein1968погрязшие в коррупции госкорпорации не стоят и пальца на ноге что некогда было создано ушедшей эпохой
p.s я не фанат Советского союза, мультикультурализма и т.п
Deserves way more attention
What a beautiful and peaceful country. If only we could turn back the clock to relive this moment all over again and no war. Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary.
As a American I have to admit the Soviets were the true winners of the space race.
As an American I disagree. Consider a race with 2 halves. Opponent A has a strong lead in the first half. But in the second Opponent B takes the lead. A lead so great that opponent A is so embarrassed they straight up lie about not competing in the second half. The fact is the Americans matched every Soviet first in space(often mere months after the USSR first achieved them). But so far no one has been able to match the achievement that was the Apollo Program. 50+ years on and the only country even close to having that capability of sending people to the moon is.... The USA. If you arbitrarily draw the finish line at the end of 1965, sure the Soviets won the space race. But the race continues in after that...
@@Bluegillbronco2 i find ur opinion very subjective, respectfully. In the same sense one could say each space mission is a different programme, different effort put into it, different result. And the soviets won all but one operations. No need to go against technological superiority of the ussr
@@rizzospastis The soviets most certainly did not win "all but 1 operations". The Americans had plenty of firsts.( Many of which have yet to be challenged). Also: The entire point of the space race was to measure the technological supremacy of the 2 super powers. And since I subscribe to the idea the Americans won the space race, then I also subscribe to the idea that the space race demonstrated the technical superiority of the USA over the СССР.(To an extent). Sure I am obviously biased toward the side of my homeland. But that doesn't mean I can't t respect or honor the efforts the other side made in the space race. In fact that's largely why I made this video.
@@Bluegillbronco2 Gagarin was an American.
You are a good man comrade !
Rip Laikia
Мечта СССР улетела, но обещала вернуться
I feel so bad that USSR culd'nt live till now
I’m glad that a tyrannical regime that slaughtered 50 million of its own citizens has been cast into the dustbin of history and the territories it once occupied now free, thriving democracies.
gagarin:legendry pioneer
Imagine if the USSR was still there
The Ultimate undisputed global superpower!!!!
Glory to those who look forward!
I need the full/original version of the footage/video at 0:33, please.
ua-cam.com/video/c5ZtBhQQPjM/v-deo.html This is where I downloaded that video from.
common soviet W
the N1 rocket ended up exploding mid take off causing the USA to make it to the moon first by the way
USSR SPACE🚀🤙
Nice
Космическая программа России сейчас: мы попытались отправить на Луну спутник но он разбился, пук пук рук
Космическая программа России раньше:
Ну во-первых СССР уделял очень много внимания космосу. Космическая гонка с США, как никак. Загугли список космических запусков России, допустим, за 2023 год. Много нового узнаешь ;) Понятное дело, общественности выгоднее и приятнее будет обращать внимание на промахи. И ничего удивительного нет в неудаче. Почти 50 лет Россия не притрагивалась к Луне.
It's because of the collapse of the USSR that hampered the Russian Space Program and also the lack of funding from the Russian Government
very sad .
Everyone knows lot about Hitler but no-one about Stalin.
exactly, Stalin killed millions more than Hitler.
А ты о Сталине только буржуй бред и знаешь
Сталин ел детей и украинцев, и лично расстрелял миллиарды людей. Распространите!
Comrade Gagarin>Elon Musk
Гагарин-тот кто был первым в космосе
Илон-тот кто возродил движение в космос.
Ah yes when rich men have more power to go to space than government based space associations
Where saluyt and mir??
Nvm
@@geoffmorrow3956😂
0:48 si sabes el contexto sabes que es algo sumamente triste 😢
The greatest country that doesn't exist anymore.
Miss Soviet 😢😢
From Vietnam 🫶🏻🇻🇳🇷🇺
No laika reference? 🥲
Based video!!!
Que gran detalle en poner a la perrita laika en el video
no one is right as time tends to 1965 America wins
before that USSR won
but if year tends to infinity
it's always 1/2 means everybody won
not only two countries but any two countries won
that two can be any two countries
atleast according to me. 😶
0:31 Alec Utgoff
quem é o senhor no minuto 0:18 ?
The people in order: Korolev, Glushko, Ustinov, and Keldysh.
LOVE IT
0:49 thats not dirt BTW
Yeah that was yuri
his name was Vladimir Komarov, he died because the e spaceship parachute was faulty and did not open, his body was left with disfigured remains that were buried in the walls of the Kremlin wall
Los soviét 🥲☭
1:30 - я не плачу, это всего лишь дождь
The Soviet Union was the best.
grade people, grade thinks
I'm some alternate timeline :Nazi Germany space program💀💀💀💀💀
Love from india hope everyone doing better
India Always love Russia and USA
Poor Laika though
0:48 that’s a dead cosmonaut
Men's dream
The dark age
Ты русский ?
(Спрашиваю потому что я видел как ты отвечаешь на русском)
Duolingo made me read your comment
I'm making a progress 😄
The USSR has achieved such results that in Russia it takes 10 years to achieve such results
Orgulo de la humanidad
⭐⭐⭐⭐ CCCP ⭐⭐⭐⭐
burnt up body and a crashed rocket over happy music, yes yes, very great
💪🏼🇷🇺
these nationalist Americans in the comment section imposing their brainwashed and biased ideologies to other people is making me sick.
I mean yea America is the most tyrannical country in the world and 54 percent of the world can only read at a 6th grade level
USSR and rest of the world: Let's Yuri tour as he was the First Man in Space
USA: Doesn't let him in the country then praise their own Space Program when they get a man in space
Freedom>invading your neighbours
@@a8495turtle Cuba and Mexico send regards
@@Pre-flightChekist and vietnam, japan, korea, puerto rico, filipines...
Ah yes Americans, praising Soviets in the space race. Ironic.
look past the rivalry and see it through the lens of human achievement
it was captured german scientists vs other captured german scientists, the real winner is mankind
@@user-vg5zx4lx8m korolev and others are slavs lol not Germans
@@noone7692 The 500 german rocket scientist that Russia got after WW2 would like to disagree
@@Red__Ray russia had more rocket scientist but ok
*German scientists won the space race
Named the German scientist who works for USSR!?
@@princesinghrawat1933Циолковский
No Soviet scientists, German scientists contributed but not much
You dont need to put Stalin here, he was just a selfish dictator, look what he did to Nikolai Vavilov
Like it or not Stalin made a lot of the early decisions regarding the early space program. His purges would also go on to have consequences for the development of rocket technology. I am only just realizing it now but I should have included Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and probably even Gorbachev in the video.
Necesary, Slava Stalin
@@Bluegillbronco2 Stalin wasnt a scientist, he was a politician and a killer. Shame on you for support that demon
Oh my God, bloody dictator, what a nightmare! -_- You could look at the number of prisoners in the USA and in the USSR in different years, compare. Not the figures that Solzhenitsyn and other Perestroika figures came up with out of nowhere, but those that have at least some justification. You could take the Viktor Nikolaevich Zemskov study as an example, although there are a number of questions about it, but at least it doesn't look like complete nonsense. But no, it's too complicated for most...
If anything, I don't want to start an argument about reprisals, I just recommend that you read this issue more carefully.
@@Bluegillbronco2 Gorbachev is not necessary, he was a nobody
bad edit
Could anyone explain these photos.
best world edit
America kept moving the goal post till the ussr couldn't keep up
Dünyanın en iyi editi amk.
Propaganda.exe
wtf
Reality
@@aliscander92 Propaganda would be if I was selling a political opinion, in this video it only highlights the space achievements of Russia
@@eco___2016 I Agree. It isn't propaganda.
@@eco___2016 I meant to that propaganda is something fictional, but achievements of Soviet space exploration is reality.