>>11941305>supremacy They never sent anything to the outer planets.
Their Mars mission failure rate was far higher than the US' was.
There was never any missile gap.
Even Sputnik 1/Vostok 1 were only ahead of their American counterparts by a few months.
The US generally had more sophisticated satellites.
Soviet scientists griped about the complexity of the Apollo Command Module during the Apollo-Soyuz project.
One would be hard-pressed to say that they had greater space capability than the US, let alone supremacy.
