I'll always be a US apologist when this meme comes up 🦅

OK but seriously, the moon landing was an amazing accomplishment, although it definitely obscures the Soviet accomplishments in the American popular conception of space exploration. Also, most of everything we currently do in space was invented by the Soviets - the manned lunar landing was sadly a dead end in the development of space travel. And there's definitely some truth to America changing the goalposts when it lost the race to first person in space. If the N1 program actually worked out and the Soviets got to the moon first, the Americans probably would have spun up the Apollo Applications Program and proclaim the new goal is a manned flyby of Venus or Mars.

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Anyone know a good source for the history of space flight technology that isn't U$ biased? I'm compiling references for good info about this kind of stuff, and haven't dove into this yet. Considering the U$ propaganda and hegemony, you won't get any information past "sputnik", "first man in space", then "america landed on the moon boom first removed fuck ya U$A U$A". But I'm pretty sure I've heard the USSR never actually claimed they were racing to go to the moon. But I'm looking for facts, not just the stuff I've heard about. Sites, books, pamphlet recommendations, etc. are all welcomed.

Thanks 1000x in advance.