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Socialism will always be playing catch-up to free markets. See the space race.

Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. It's tedious, nasty, and the last thing we want here.

Wasn't the USSR first in space? First ICBM , first artificial satellite, first man in space etc?

They had all the firsts expect for the last one, which someone decided was the only one that counted.

Also first interplanetary landing and first space station. To this day the cheapest and most effective way to send humans to LEO is still Soviet.