They beat the US in sending the first man to space.
Saying that “they never achieved much” is a gigantic understatement!!
Saying that “they never achieved much” is a gigantic understatement!!
Given the way the ranking under discussion values tertiary education and given how much the Soviets had them but didn't succeed economically, is having a high number of them really beneficial? It takes resources and time to get a PhD or a masters. Are these the best thing on which to spend them? Do they really matter? Can you be more practically innovative with simple undergrad degrees?
It's a disgusting state of affairs, regardless of anyone's opinion on Russia.
The US has superior launch capability to Russia. SpaceX performed more launches all by itself in 2017 than all of the large Russian nation that has been doing space launches for 60 years. That gap is about to get dramatically worse over the next five years.
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