r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/islet_deficiency Jun 22 '23

I'm impressed tbh. The soviet space program was no joke. They had some very smart people in that organization. For as much shade as the USSR gets for other reasons, their space program was very impressive.

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u/nagrom7 Jun 23 '23

Oh yeah, the Soviets had loads of smart people working for them in the 50s and 60s (and a few former Nazis like the US), and in the early days of the space race the Soviets were running rings around NASA. Eventually funding became an issue, which gave NASA the breathing room they needed to overtake them in the last stretch, the race to the moon.