The Space Race - Part 1, the Soviet Headstart

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I have elected to not write out the reference list here, I really do feel like as I have mentioned many times this does not get read, at least by anyone outside of Patreon and Discord. I am happy to give insight on some great sources there.
A few highlights I can reccomend though are the works released by NASA and Soviet and post Soviet writers. The thing about space is the men and women involved genrally speaking tend to be good people. Just, as always, read multiple sources.
Lastly if you believe the moon landing and space is fake, seek help.

[@IamgRiefeR7]

The Soviet Headstart, also known as "any% speedrun to space", except they can't click restart game when the 30th rocket held together by tac welds and state approved metallurgy blows up.

[@u2beuser714]

U.S was dependent on that very same state metallurgy (soyuz system) until 2020

[@B-52H]

It just has revert to build turned off

[@florianlucs7229]

Just like kerbal space program

[@12pentaborane]

​@@u2beuser714 That's not entirely correct, that was only the manned program and only for 9 years.

[@nothingbutchappy]

​@@u2beuser714hey that system is the ak47 of rockets... Simple, clunky no fancy features but it works extremey reliably.

[@allanpberry5706]

Decades ago I was working on some educational online games involving space history and I got to spend some time in Huntsville to shake hands and ask nicely if we can use their stuff for content. The curator at the time (her name was Irene) and myself got along really well, she was so happy to see a younger (it was decades ago) person that was so into the history of NASA. She took us up into the archives where they had a TON of pulp fiction mags but one of the the coolest things was we got to see the original blueprints for the V2. When we were taking pics one of the programmers leaned over and said 'There was a time we would have been killed for this...' and a shiver went down my spine. It was one of the coolest times in my life and everybody there was great, I feel really lucky to have been shown all of that history. Keep up the Space Race stuff!

[@concept5631]

Glad you weren't killed for it.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

This Glushko guy seems cool. I’m sure he’ll be the saviour of the Soviet space program

[@lemming8002]

I actually go to university where Goddard first launched his liquid fueled rocket, we keep a version of it in our library, which is named after him.

[@jonnyj.]

YESS! I cant wait for you to talk about the space race. This is gonna be fucking good. Imo apollo was, BY FAR, as close as we ever got to literal unlimited funding to achieve a goal. When your total program funding costed more than 6x the manhattan project, or the ENTIRE FUCKING marshall plan... thats seriously awesome :D Also sergei korolev should really be talked about more. He deserves to be honoured. An actual genius, who went through so much and died so early...

[@sniperfi4532]

And they had that “failure is not an option” attitude unlike today’s private space companies having a rocket not blow up 5 minutes after launch is a huge achievement.

[@davidk1308]

​@sniperfi4532 You don't know much about the space race then. "Failure is not an option" became important when there were lives on the line during Apollo 13. In fact, failure was an option for much of the space race because there was so much uncharted territory. There was a long streak of failures when trying to reach orbit, there was also a streak of failures when trying to reach and eventually land on the Moon with Surveyor. Across all attempted missions, it took the US 5 times before they reached the Moon, 14 before they impacted it (intentionally), and 17 times to land. Oh, and the Saturn V also had to learn through failures and challenges during development to address things like pogo oscillations and combustion instability. There were over 2,000 tests to fix instability on the F-1 engine, and pogo would've led to an abort during Apollo 6 if it had carried crew. Point being, testing and flying during Apollo and the space race was used to break new ground, and the same is being done by SpaceX. Starship is much larger than any vehicle that has been launched before, more complex to allow reusability, and with a fraction of the resources Apollo was given. They're only claiming the launches are successful _for them_ to _help them_ reach important milestones in flight, and getting them closer to an operational system. Destructive testing is still testing, and failure data is still data. That you can't recognize it doesn't mean their methods don't work.

[@Error-5478]

The amount of geniuses the USSR had, yet threw into the gulag, should be covered more. Many of the ww2 fighter and bomber desgins russia had were designed in a gulag cell.

[@weldonwin]

I suppose that happens when a nation is ruled by a paranoid psychopath, with a deep fear and hatred of anyone smarter than him

[@medicmain3947]

Animarchy talks about this in his newest video

[@carpathianhussar8553]

I'm not a comment-y type of guy, but I couldn't resist. You only possess this piece of knowledge, and have phrased this sentence the specific way you did, and threw this trivia under this video because of Animarchy's russian fighter plane essay posted a week ago, you're not fooling anyone bro😅Get a grip, read a book!

[@ihavewaited90daystochangem51]

​​@@carpathianhussar8553 actually it's you who should get a grip and touch some grass. Who cares where the info comes from as long as it's aquired? Not atleast any non pretentious individual who thinks "reading a book" is a clever snapback does ;)

[@stickiedmin6508]

​@@carpathianhussar8553 Dude, it's hardly some secret, little known nugget of information - anyone who's ever studied Soviet aviation / space projects in any detail knows about it.

[@FPoP1911]

I made a comment in Animarchy's soviet fighter design video in any history relating anything soviet there'll come the sentence "and then came stalin"... only took 3 minutes here!

[@__-ed1qq]

Love the start on space race anthology! Its rare to see an attempt at balanced view of the space race, cuz it usually either "Soviet were the best, they only lost the last part" or "USA got a flag on the moon, everything else is invalid". Actually highlighting struggles, achievements and blunders of both sides are makes it for much more enjoyable and truthfull watch. If you want any help in translating from Russian sources - please let me know. I would love to help.

[@Argie87]

What ppl fail to realize is that the Space Race continued after 1969

[@Syndr1]

I tell people we really did go to the moon 🌙. If we didn't the Rustkie's would have snitched us out.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

And or the Chinese

[@Jeff9650]

Exactly! But when I tell people that, they reply with, "Well, the Soviets were in on it so they could get more grain". You can't win with these deniers.

[@Irobert1115HD]

also theres the first space walk where the guy got stuck in the airlock because the suit was to flexible. dont know if the americans listened in to learn that or if the soviets admitted that the suit was to flexible. helped a lot to develop real EVA suits (the oney used outside of a spacecraft).

[@florianlucs7229]

i mean the earth is a disc carried by a turtle, so the moon is really a paper plate held up by an invisible fishing rod. you cant land on a paper plate.

[@gingernutpreacher]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel and the Brits

[@Pyriphlegeton]

Little fun fact, von Braun's full name is: "Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun". German names can go hard, man.

[@535phobos]

Pretty mild lower nobility name. They can have A LOT more names. (Freiherr of course isnt a name, its his title)

[@Hungary_0987]

@@535phobos ye

[@eldarshamukhamedov4521]

Growing up in Russia, not once, _ever_, were we told that Korolev and Glushko were both born in Ukraine. Fuck the empire, glory to Ukraine.

[@Deadlybudz]

Ukraine is literally the reason Russia has a space program, everything was designed and built by Ukrainians! Slava!

[@jackthorton10]

Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[@einehrenmann6156]

@@DeadlybudzUkraine also build most of the soviet and now russian tanks. It also build the soviet navy which the russians then stole from the Ukrainian docks during the collapse. The USSR would never have been what it was without Ukraine.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

SLAVA UKRAYINI !🔱💙💛✌😊

[@jackthorton10]

@@einehrenmann6156 And another interesting fact, at the Reichstag in WW2, that famous image of the Soviet Flag being rung up over what is among many the most recognizable landmarks of Germany... was formerly a Ukrainian Firefighter

[@ManiaMac1613]

The history of Soviet space exploration just saddens me. Scientists and explorers who had the potential to lift all of humanity up to the stars were dragged back down to the mud by corrupt beaurecrats. It's true the Soviets accomplished some truly amazing things, but they could have done so much more.

[@hydra7427]

The Soviets did all the easy things as fast as possible, with no regard for safety or long term sustainability, then literally crashed and burned when asked to do anything else. Which speaks to why the Americans REALLY won the space race, as it was about ICBMs and guess who has a better grasp on that technology?

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

The only thing that is more sad is the Russian space exploration. There's a saying in Russia "Юра, мы всё проебали", which translates as "Yuriy, we've (a combination of "fucked up", "frittered\pissed away") everything", as if sadly conveying the current state of things to Yuriy Gagarin. However, many who use it still don't see that the current state of affairs is the natural development of the Soviet/Russian space program, and had the USSR not fallen apart, it would just prolong the agony of space exploration, but it still would be agony, just not as apparent and not as fast. The myth of soviet supremacy is very strong here.

[@chrissmith3587]

Welcome to science and engineering, most technical achievements are limited most by money and management

[@HypnoPol1499]

I didn't expect to find anything I enjoyed after Homemade Documentaries but I loved this Part 1. You have a soft voice but full of character and made me laugh, great narration and the music is not over-bearing and fab footage. Looking forward to Part 2.

[@ForceSmart]

I agree. In many ways, putting men on the Moon and then bringing them home again is the literal pinnacle of United States and world history up to the current day. Excited to watch the following episodes. Ty

[@knpark2025]

Any time I think of the Space Race I think of Ms. Margaret Hamilton. She wrote a code into what is basically a copper mesh embroider and it sent people to the Moon. She's my unofficial patron saint of programmers. The moral of the Space Race should be: never underestimate people's willingness to brute-force their way into greatness.

[@thechancellor3715]

Unless you lived through the early post-Sputnik days, you might not know that there was an internal space race in the US between the Army at Redstone Arsenal and the Navy with their Vanguard projects. If the US Air force had any interests they sure as hell kept them well hidden. The multiple failures of the Vanguard rockets at Cape Canaveral made the TV evening news...which were much discussed among my grade school cohort. Consensus was that the Vanguard was a beauty, an example of pulp sci-fi cover art and the Redstone, ell slick looking it wasn't. As a foot note, the interest in Space rocketry in the US was largely sparked by the launch of the Sputnik and certainly captured the imagination of every male school boy. The market place responded with fanciful models, all kinds of toy rockets and hobbyist rockets. So there was an eager crop of would be rocket scientists on the ground without government prodding. Free market.

[@buttersquids]

Excited to watch this. Have you seen DeadKennedyInSpace's video where he discusses the myth of Soviet space superiority?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I haven't no

[@buttersquids]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel it's a pretty good video responding to the idea you see thrown around occasionally that the Soviets did the space race better (like the memes that say "America got to the moon first, but the USSR did all of this other stuff first" ignoring the fact that America had plenty of their own firsts and generally did things better than the Soviets even when they weren't first)

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

@@buttersquids It's a good video and I'd recommend it. Basically, if you take a list of Soviet space firsts and add the word "Successful" a lot of them flip to Americans. Personally, I think what it comes down to is the Soviets started with an excellent launch vehicle, the R-7, which is still in use today. Most of the Soviet successes are based on the R-7. Once the Americans developed the first purpose built space launch vehicles with the Saturns the race was pretty much over, with the Americans performing missions the Soviets and Russians never did.

[@u2beuser714]

​@@JohnWilliamNowak The U.S was dependent on Russian soyuz system until 2020

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

This was only for 9 years during the lapse of a replacement between the Shuttle and Dragon

[@morskojvolk]

17:10 I would argue that the space race began in 1919 with the treaty of Versailles. It virtually eliminated German artillery, but left a loophole for rockets. This inspired the German army to fund early rocket research, including Von Braun. I really enjoyed this vid and appreciate your avoidance of presentism. Can't wait for the next installment.

[@concept5631]

Interesting

[@SomeoneFromBeijing]

Professor Qian Xuesen (also anglicised as Hsue-shen Tsien), who studied under von Karmen, served in the US Army during Operation Paperclip, and co-founded JPL, got deported to China because McCarthyists thought he was a communist. He was not. He then built China's ICBM arsenal and China's space programme. It really pains me that brilliant scientists were forced by the powers that be to produce weapons that kill people, when these scientists just wanted to send people to the stars.

[@Neukend]

No! You cant, say that! Only the bloody Soviet regime could do that! Seriously tho, the amount of likes under your comment and the amount of them under a comment about how bad things in USSR were is so drastically different... People really only the what they want.

[@Syndr1]

Let's all pour 1 out for Laika 🌌🚀 🐕🐶.

[@williambeisel5686]

Absolutely

[@jackthorton10]

To Laika!

[@bassett_green]

Congrats on going fulltime!

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Thank-you!

[@robertharrington703]

Commented on a video a while back after first finding this channel, delighted you're going to be doing this full time! Best of luck with it all and love the content.

[@aaronator4d633]

My favourite fact about the space race is that the third country to join the space race was Canada 🇨🇦! Canada sent a satellite the Alouette in 1962 I hope you highlight this fact as it doesn’t get talked about much but I think it should as it highlights a very key point in Canadian aerospace history

[@carlossaraiva8213]

As if i needed more reasons to love Canada. Badass!

[@doltsbane]

Considering their emphasis on propaganda, I've never understood why Soviet footage of their space program is always such poor quality. Even NASA's engineering cameras used high resolution, ultra-high framerate, color film, let alone their gorgeous documentary camera shots. Meanwhile Soviet archival footage looks like it was shot with somebody's spring driven 8mm home movie camera.

[@danielkarlsson9326]

it's Simple if you want good footage don't invade the Swedish Empire nor invade former parts of Sweden. Jokes aside but HAsselblads Cameras were integral for Nasa in Space.

[@p.strobus7569]

I always assumed the Soviets were using their best cameras for this, it’s just that their best was a spring driven 8mm.

[@tomhsia4354]

@@p.strobus7569 Also, I don't think the Soviets had good film. They allegedly used Kodak film from a captured US spy balloon for photographing the far side of the moon. They had passable photo cameras and decent lenses (partially thanks to Zeiss), the latter of which I have a few and I can say that Soviet lenses (the ones that were actually built properly) are tack sharp but have subpar coatings. Also, the Soviets were massively behind on electronics. Their broadcasting tech was (remember, film cameras were not used for live broadcasting) probably not up to snuff.

[@16mopey]

If I could make a polite suggestion you might want to make a few playlists with series like this one and the russian navy one for people that maybe want to a pud searching each individual video can't wait to see what other future content you create

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Should be there now

[@concept5631]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Thanks

[@CommissarMitch]

The absolute irony of USSR calling USA backwards because of a failed rocket launch.

[@jackthorton10]

Well I don’t see that coming back to bite them in this series…. Right?

[@spao9411]

Early days of shit posting

[@deadpan2866]

the soviets where the first to boil a dog in space

[@teamancilla6226]

When it comes to the Space Race, I feel equal parts joy and admiration mixed in with foreboding and well- sadness. Because the Space Race, achievements or not, was really a culmination of geopolitical maneuvering. To see how our willingness to push the boundaries in space has dwindled so significantly is... well as a lover of everything to do with astronomy, astrobiology, etc, it hurts. If James Webb is what we can do even with space exploration being deemed "unimportant" by major powers, what could we do with a second Space Race?

[@rickewald3988]

I can't wait for the rest of the series. I grew up during this time. Seeing your take on it will be awesome.

[@hometownboy6537]

Goddamn! Between you and Animarchy, we need more Aussies on this platform teaching us history.

[@thomasbaker6563]

Perun is good, and hypohethrical history is great

[@charlesdorval394]

Can't wait for part 2 ! :)

[@lostShadowLord]

like to point that the Soviets where the first to do X in space because they rush the Development, and it sometimes failed, barely succeed , or they lied. they got very lucky. To the point that they put an untrained woman into space because the American were training Women to going space. this Soviet Woman almost Crashed the Vessel - because she decided to mess around with controls, after she was told to not touch.

[@craigbinder5560]

OMG so happy to hear you'll be doing this full time. Fantastic presentation and narration. Have a feeling you have the beginnings of a very successful channel

[@bushranger8960]

No mention of the Zambian space program 🤦🤦

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

So I googled it What the absolute fuck did I just read?

[@prolebenz251]

3:01 as soon as he mention sergey kovalyov acknowledged his genius and pointed put why he died i knew this vid was gonna be fire

[@weldonwin]

Also, why am I not at all surprised to find out he was Ukrainian and not Russian

[@jacobtrapp3772]

Does anyone else expect History of Everything PODCAST's voice to be pleasantly surprised by History of Everything's voice?

[@HeaanLasai]

We chose to do this, not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be.

[@CocoHutzpah]

7:19 I have seen the last remaining Valkyrie in person and it is even more impressive up close.

[@sharkk127]

I just remembered, there was an anime I watched about a vampire girl being used as one of the test subjects in the ussr, was definitely an interesting one. (Moon, Laika, And The Bloodsucking Princess)

[@andrewyang7507]

I still love that as much hostilities the world has the space station works as a way to remind us as a species that we are one it doesnt matter if american, european, chinese. We are one and we can look up and learn that we can reach the stars not as enemies but as one

[@llahneb10]

Looking forward to part 2!

[@LastGoatKnight]

I just listened to the intro, already happy to use a headphone, so satisfying

[@johnstewart579]

It was an era of bold exploration and National pride, an era that I had the honor of playing a very small contribution. Looking forward to proud humans finally returning to our Moon and inspiring new generations.

[@louiscarullo6034]

…I hate that I have been missing your premiers :(. But gawddam if I don’t love your work.

[@quintonlim4275]

You know if the USSR haven't gulaged a fuck ton of intelligentsia they probably would have performed better. Unfortunately it is a symptom that hurt more then just the Soviet Aviation Industry.

[@christopherconard2831]

Throwing a bunch of intelligent people into the gulags (when not just executing them), was the mindset of an angry child that smashes a toy they don't want to share. If i can't have it, no one can. Locking up people that might not tow the party line 100% usually denies you access to them. But it guarantees they won't get really crazy ideas like leaving and working for someone else. But when the top five qualifications for leadership in a country are paranoia, more paranoia, sociopathic behavior, god level narcissism, and crippling paranoia. It's kind of expected.

[@lemax6865]

Mussolini's Italy, Mustache-man-that-gets-comments-shadowbanned's Germany, Stalin's USSR, Mao's China, and so many more... Even Robespierre's France had that problem. So many great minds lost to the purges of extremists.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Yeah, it's not a bug, it's a feature

[@aaronlea9559]

Thank you for crafting!

[@Irobert1115HD]

soviet union: but our hole has nice curtains and some pretty high quality wallpaper!

[@josephglatz25]

15:00 there actually were multi stage rockets built before then. None of them could get to space, mind you. But the Germans built an anti aircraft rocket called the Rhinetochter, and an artillery rocket called the Rhinebote. Neither got past the prototype stage, but both saw numerous test flights.

[@MrAWG9]

If this series is as informative and hilarious as your “Russian Navy Sucks” series, well, where do I send my money again?

[@paulcroshier6708]

For future reference, nobody ever referred to it as the W A C corporal, but rather the WAC corporal (pronounced wack) as a crude joke about the figures on Women's Army Corps NCOs .... rather like the rocket, skinny on top and broad on the bottom.

[@bevgroves8062]

Awesome as always 🙏 many thanks for the gems you produce. Delighted you’ll be full time 🎉 ❤

[@Fedaykin24]

A critical factor to understand in why America beat Russia to landing a man on the moon is the size of the rocket engines each side made. Put simply in that early period of the space race Russia made large rockets with lots of small engines whilst the USA made small rockets with large engines.

[@richardvernon317]

The R-7 has the same number of engines burning at Lift Off as a Saturn V....FIVE!!! What the Russians couldn't do was deal with combustion chamber instability which resulted in the engines destroying themselves. This became more common, the larger the engine's combustion chambers became. In the Soviet Union, they could build big turbo pumps to shift the fuel and oxidiser, but not the combustion chambers that could burn the mix with stability. Thus the core stage of the R7 had one pump assembly feeding 4 main chambers and 4 steering Verner nozzles, and the 4 strap-on stages had one pump each again feeding 4 main chambers and two steering Verner nozzles. The F-1 Engine on the Saturn V had a butt load of issues with combustion chamber instability which destroyed a lot of test articles before they found a fix for it (which was to put baffle plates and rings on the main fuel / oxidiser injector plate, which stopped any instability from starting in its tracks). The reason the USSR did all of its firsts was because they had a big rocket to shift a big nuclear weapon and electronics based on Vacuum Tubes!!! The US managed to miniaturise their nuclear weapons and Electronics before they built their IRBM's and ICBM's so their rockets had less lift capacity.

[@sodaaccount]

Imagine sitting on a 2800 ton bomb thats gonna explode at hopefully just the right rate to sling you out of our oxygenated atmosphere into the vast void of space. I love rockets!

[@evenodd3339]

I like that there’s a whole community of military vehicles and general cool stuff on KZbin now. This kind of stuff really wasn’t much of a thing in 2020

[@SnazzBot]

For the blurrier parts of the footage, you can always zoom out a bit and make it look like an overhead projector or a slideshow. 📽 I believe you’ll be forgiven, considering how incredibly old the footage is.

[@kam833]

there is a video out there i think called "the "myth" of soviet space superiority". it goes in depth about this stuff, i would reccomend

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

Indeed, while the Soviets did achieve many impressive feats, they did so with quite a few cut corners, and the occasional prioritization of propaganda aspects over the technical engineering/expertise needs of the project(s) in question. And sure, the Americans had some nasty deadlines involved in the Moon landings for propaganda reasons, but I feel like there woukd gave been a decent chance that if NASA had missed those deadlines it would only be embarrassing and then a new deadlibe set, rather than whatever half-finished thing they'd made getting blown up on the pad in a desperate hope it might work anyway...

[@anthonyhayes1267]

Justice for Laika

[@jeromelabrosse1669]

Absolutely can’t wait for part 2!

[@Thunderbox247]

why is it whenever I hear about great "Russian" minds they are always Ukrainian?

[@avroarchitect1793]

Because Moscow was built on a swamp, and everyone with a brain knew it was a bad idea to live there.

[@sheriff0017]

In 1989, Holden brought the name Apollo to something ... rather different.

[@strellettes8511]

this channel is dope. cant wait for part 2

[@Wustenfuchs109]

The video is hit and miss. The first thing I noticed is the extremely American-centric view of "USA won the space race", a statement that no one outside of USA is quick to say - you might have noticed, space tech continued to develop, it didn't stop in 1969. The only reason why that year was taken as "the end of the race" is because that is the first milestone in which USA overtook USSR in space. That's it. It would be like in a car race, you lose 10 laps, on 11th you take the lead position, and then declare the race over. One can say "Manned race to the Moon", and yes, the USA won that one. "Space Race"? No. If anything, that race is ongoing and it has since gotten many more participants. The other part I found bothersome is the promotion of Korolev. Was he a good engineer? Yes, very much so. But many of his designs were flawed, he was a bad manager of the program and constantly argued with his colleagues, not hesitating to play political "I am the Chief Designer" card to get his way. Glushko, his main rival, turned out to be much better organized and engineer (who also had some blunders), developing much stronger and reliable engines and rocket, plus his plans were much bigger and long term than that of Korolev. Under Glushko, USSR took primacy in space station construction, developed a better semi-reusable system (Energia-Buran), with Energia itself being a beauty, culminating in designed but never finished completely reusable heavy lifter Energia 2 back in 1980's.

[@kman2747]

I mean, Luna 2 was supposed to crash into the moon. That was also Luna 1's mission, but it missed and became the first object to escape Earth's sphere-of-influence.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

That's why I said achieved hard landing

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel I'm inclined to agree with @kman2747. "Hard landing" suggests it was intended to make a soft landing, but "Impactor" makes it clear it wasn't. The Soviets missed the moon quite a bit, since they didn't have an upper stage able to orient and start in space, so they had to launch directly into a lunar impact trajectory. Which is very difficult, so they had around five failures to impact. The US had the Agena upper stage, and while they had issues with the probe itself, only one actually missed the Moon.

[@kommandantgalileo]

I feel extremely disappointed the USSR did not continue trying, that they gave up, they could have achieved great things (maybe).

[@avroarchitect1793]

it would have made the Americans a little less insufferable about the moon landing today.

[@scarecrow108productions7]

To this day, I will never forgive them for what they did to Laika..... As pet owner of having lost two cats and two dogs nearly of a year apart from one another, this just hurts as much as it does.

[@thechief043]

I like these little tidbits of history. It's kind of wild looking back at the long list of ideas Korolev had in mind for future space flights. It's a shame there was so much infighting between him and Chelomey, they could've achieved much more for humanity if they'd been a functional team.

[@pritikinaa]

Love your content! Yes please do continue this series.

[@michaelnager6059]

I think the tragedy which is what actually happened to Robert H. Goddard could have been fleshed out a bit more. Also when Apollo 11 launched The New York Times did print an apology to him. On the inside pages of course.

[@zacharyfreelove6101]

This is going to be funny. The soviet space race. A pissing contest that the soviets couldn't hope to afford.

[@weldonwin]

And here's something hilarious to think about. Soviet manned flights all came down on land, but in the event of navigational malfunction or extreme weather at the intended landing zones, alternate landing zones were planned. These included potential landing zones in the continental US... Specifically, in Texas. So, I want you to picture a Soviet Cosmonaut, landing their capsule in the middle of Texas, during the Cold War and you realize the REAL reason Cosmonauts took Shotguns into space with them.

[@DisFantasy]

@@weldonwin Rattlesnakes?

[@weldonwin]

@@DisFantasy Texans. Imagine being Cosmonaut, touching down in the middle of the most violently anti-Communist and most heavily armed US State?

[@DisFantasy]

@@weldonwin I sure would like to see examples of this anti-Communist violence.

[@tacoman9859]

Hey, love your videos. Really cool to see the historical clips. Just an fyi your cuts on this one seem a little disjointed. The pauses between a lot of sentences are really jarring. Just a heads up. Keep up the great vids :)

[@jayejaejjjeijay5648]

"Oh, don't look so shocked, *everyone* went to the gulag in those days..."

[@lucashinch]

Goggard museum of modern rocketry is excellent.

[@MeeesterBond17]

One day I really want to visit Huntsville, AL. Partly to visit the space museum, partly to see if I can meet anyone working for Siemens who can deliver a lecture about coding FEA software in a southern drawl.

[@MrZRager]

i remember my relatives who lived under soviet occupation telling us "jokes" that soviets were spending money to build space rockets, while at the same time could not build a factory to make toilet paper, priorities. :D

[@McNubbys]

Well done😊

[@anno-fw7xn]

A interstic topics And i hope a great series! Also its a great that you look at this topic with the view od modern-day russa Will you do a nother pateron video and can you do singel donation?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Patrons get the videos early. But single donation through KZbin is always welcome and appreciated

[@robert506007]

Keep it up this is good.

[@customersupportdeer6150]

"a little controversial" USSR: first satelite in space, first animal in space, first photo of the far side of the moon, first person in space, first woman in space, first spacewalk, first craft landed on the moon, first spacecraft landed on another planet (Venus), first spacecraft landed on Mars, first space station USA: first people on the moon Conclusion: USA wins again babyyyyy!!! No but really, the USSR won the spacerace, on almost every conceivable front. Regardless of corruption, shit and dangerous design, overall incompetency etc.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Nice try, putinoid. All those soviet achievements, brilliants that they are, were stepping stones to landing on the Moon which the USSR failed to achieve and that's a fact. And the USSR nor russia later has ever been successful in reaching Mars (ironic given its called the red planet) and beyond, something the USA and other nations have achieved with regularity. And neither USSR nor russia ever visited Mercury, a planet far more difficult to travel to than Venus. The USSR never sent probes beyond the solar system, the USA did. Nobody has forgotten about the embarracing fiasco that was Luna 25, we are still laughing at that. Meanwhile India landed a probe on the Moon and Japan sent such a badass lunar probe that it can word despite being upside down. By the way russia is not the only inheritor of the USSR space achievdments but ALL THE FOGMER SOVIET STATES THAT MADE IT. And the soviet doace program wouldnt had left Earth without the immense contribution of the UKRAINIAN enginners who made the bulk of the soviet space program. Seriously, putinoid, you really want to go on dick measuring about space? Seriously??

[@lemax6865]

A race is won by the first one to cross the finish line. It doesn't matter if the other runner was ahead for most of the race, the winner is the one who crosses the fial threshold first. You want to argue the Soviets "won" anything, you're gonna have to convince everyone to stop calling it a race. Yes, Soviet achievements during the development of aerospace are undeniable, but from the perspective of it being a "race" determining who would hold control of the Space Age, well, who has control now?

[@carlossaraiva8213]

@@lemax6865 Better yet, Russia's SOLE excursion to the moon after the USSr ended in a very embaracing disaster. Even the Japanese lander, that ended up upside down, still managed to land and work well despite the less than optimal landing it did. India got to the Moon too. Israel almost got there despite it being from a private firm with considerable less resources than the entire russia state at the disposal of Roscosmos. Russia is such a loser. The USSR lost the race and Russia acts now like the drunk racer who can't help but crash all his cars.

[@ChadwickTheChad]

Actually russia quit the space race, so that equals an obvious loss. In fact, you depend on the USA for basic things like youtube.

[@emilioi.valdez6680]

Hello History of Everything, I'm hoping to request a video on perhaps the dark side of railways throughout history. Since you stated your intentions on covering topics that would get you demonetized on KZbin, I think that what I requested might be somewhat fascinating or at least interesting.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I would like to do that. Particularly the Burma Siam railway, hopefully travelling there to get the footage

[@emilioi.valdez6680]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Nice to hear.

[@razgriz9146]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel the Railway of Death. Where untold tens of thousands of Allied P.O.W.s and local Thai and Burmese slave laborers were tragically worked to death by the Imperial Japanese Army just to build a railroad that the Americans would render entirely worthless via strategic bombing by the time that it was completed and operational, anyways. A prime example of how Imperial Japan could be irredeemably evil and incomprehensibly incompetent/short-sighted, at the same time.

[@GenJeFT]

Looking forward to the next one.

[@lucashinch]

Part 2 please

[@sandythethird2292]

That's interesting, I'd always heard rhat sputnik was made because the truck carrying the original satellite to the launching ground crashed and totalled it.

[@fritzerichgeorgeduardvonma5615]

I will support you on patreon

[@alexanderbowman4174]

For those interested listen to We Choose To Go To The Moon by Christopher Tin and the Royal Opera. Fantastic piece of choral music that is all words to JFK’s speech of the same name as the song. Ik it’s a turnoff saying it’s choral music but I think it’s closer to a combination of choral and movie music like Star Wars tbh.

[@freddiejohames8332]

The fact that we went to the moon in 1960 makes me wonder what we could achieve today if we actually tried.

[@milanapeacock6062]

Oh wow, can’t wait!

[@lukejohnston4666]

Rocket designer thrown into gulag... Ah, Korolyov.

[@Nostripe361]

Interesting to hear about the smaller victories in the race. Most people only mention first satellite, first animal, first human, and the moon landings. Ignoring the others

[@Sadiqi]

Defo gone need a part 2

[@maoama]

Ill support you. I am a poor man. I cant share you funds. But ill do my best to share your works.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Just sharing means the world to me. Any kind of support blows my mind

[@losthero0]

"I WILL be demonetized" I like your spunk kid

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Already have bud. Already have

[@hairy-dairyman]

The only thing i disagree with is the Valkyrie being the coolest bomber. Its obviously the avro Vulcan.

[@Hoot_hoot777]

Yes continue please! I'll cease to life if you don't. (This comment does not claim to hold any facts or truths, and therefore should not be held to a standard of fact or truth. Doings so is at your own risk and the one who made the comment is not liable for any outcome of that action.)

[@nealramsey4439]

Trumped up charges takes on a whole new meaning nowadays.

[@matthewgoebel8785]

Can you please provide links to other channels that you mention for those of us who might not be up to speed on all of nify content providers? Thanks! :)

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

There's a nice relatively neutral and mostly accurate story of the space race, but only in Russian, unfortunately; it's called "мимо луны", which translates to "missing the moon", a series of 4 KZbin videos totaling over 17 hours. Might be of interest to those who happen to know the language.

[@SerialWaffleStomper]

hey mate, I really enjoy your videos, especially the series where you shit on russian navy - then again shitting on russia is basically a national sport over here. If I could ask you to do one thing is to just work a little bit on your intonation or maybe level out the level of your voice in editing. You have a really good voice and I really like listening to you, it's just sometimes the volume of your voice differ so much during the sentence it's like you did not gather enough steam to finish a part of the sentence. You got this man, preach

[@Jimzyy]

Great video as ever

[@feartheamish9183]

Keepem coming, love space

[@ohppig1]

You start talking about insane American aerospace engineers but don't mention Jack Parsons?? Only criticism, von Braun during the 1950s did little real work on advancing space technology, which was mostly done under the USAF and the Atlas and Titan missile programs. Though the US started on rocket technology later than the USSR, they'd largely caught up by the time the time the Operation Paperclip guys showed up.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

This video is just up to Explorer 1 and Gagarin. There will be more once I get into Atlas and Gemini

[@Irobert1115HD]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel will you also mention the guy stuck in the airlock? first space walk. its a nice thing to know to put the moon landing conspiracy to bed.

[@Irobert1115HD]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel actually ther was deorbiting tech at the time sputnik 2 launched but only the US had it. the bell X1 was unsteerable at top speed because of some design goofs so they invented RCS systems to fix that.

[@avroarchitect1793]

Von Braun was less invoved in design of the Apolo and the Eagle Lander than Canadians who left Canada following the cancellation of the Avro Arrow program. Jim Chamberlain, among dozens of others, ended up in everywhere from NASA to Lockheed and some just "dissapeared" into the US aircraft industry.

[@Mr.Scootini]

Part 2??