>America won the space race !

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>>66492136
>france
>winning anything

>>66492192
well memed

>>66492136
Your best days are behind you, Francois.
But you have surely earned your rest, is it not so?

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>>66492192
Is that an american flag? I don't think so

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79UO4HOQmc

>>66492192
Hundred years war.

>>66494720
France against France

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>French """""""""""""""""""""""""""""engineering"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

>>66492192
>america
>winning anything

>>66494814
Tbh it wasn't entirely the engineer's fault

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>>66494867

>>66494921
>Britain

RIGGED

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>>66492220
>>66492424
>>66494867

BTFO. when will they learn?

>>66494894
Yes it was

The tyre manufactures didn't take into account American Engineering (or lack of)

>>66494969
What do you mean?
What does the US have to do with this?

>>66494969
The O-Rings had contracted in the winter cool due to NASA's over-optimistic schedule.

>>66494814
I love you but pls hurry the brexit.

>>66495142
American so-called engineers """"fixed""' a plane by gluing a part back on instead of using glue instead of rivets

That bit fell off, punctured the tyre of the Concorde on take-off with the tyre fragments penetrating the fuel tanks, setting the plane on fire, causing it to crash with no survivors

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Daily reminder that the French resistance was a meme that achieved practically nothing and was mostly comprised of Communists fighting for their Soviet overlords.

> be yuropoor
>get blown up on mars

HAHHAHAHHAHHA

>>66494921
>France has 1/3 of the medals USA has
>has 1/5 of USA's population
What are you trying to prove?

In the last 45 years no other country apart from the US has been able to land on Mars

>>66502552
>total medals
The US has more gold than silver or bronze, while France has almost twice as much silver as gold.

>>66494921
1 man earned 1/8 of total gold medals
Why is this allowed?

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>>66503009
>man

*demi god

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>>66503213
American god is overpowered autizd

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>>66497984
French """""Resistance""""".

>>66492192
They won your independence you dirty ingrate.

>>66503511
Don't you see the "Vichy France" and "Free France" you illiterate burger ?

>>66503652
>"only about 3,000 chose to continue the fight by joining de Gaulle's Free French army"
>"Three-quarters of French servicemen in Britain requested repatriation"
>Vichy France soldiers in Syria: 45,000
>French soldiers in the SS: 20,000

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:^)

>The July 21, 1969 Pravda only mentioned the Moon landing in a small article in the bottom right corner of the front page, the main story that day being about communist rule in Poland

How butthurt can you be?

>>66503735
Also most of the Resistance were communists. After the war, de Gaulle used his status as a right-wing Resistance member to create a patriotic myth about the movement that didn't exactly correspond to reality.

France was the third country to orbit a satellite, so...meh.

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How many times did your country send the man to the moon?

How many international space stations has your country built almost alone which was originally meant to be just a national space station but the rest of the world got so butthurt you had to change the name?

How many times did your country send robots to explore Mars's surface?

How many times did your contry send probes to outer space in search of alien life with a fucking gold disc with all know recorded human culture?

>>66495227
Wrong. They would have failed anyway; there had been previous Shuttle launches with O-ring damage in warm weather.

>>66492136
The Space Race was over for years and years when the Challenger Disaster happened.

Whoever gets trips has the best country. I'll start.

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>>66494867

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of the Schiaparelli Probe disintegrating.

>>66508320
Also we got a probe to Venus first (Mariner 2) and it took only two tries while it took the Soviets 11 attempts before Venera 4 finally succeeded.

>>66492136
The space race ended with Apollo 11, you tard

>>66508610
Generally speaking, it's said to have ended with the conclusion of the moon landings in 1972.

>>66508610
It's not over yet.

>>66508536
The Soviet program had more success with the Moon in the beginning (amazingly, the US only succeeded once in 12 attempts between 1958 and 64). They had tons of failed lunar missions too, none of which the outside world knew about until perestroika. It was pretty much a case of "Keep throwing stuff at the wall and hope it sticks" with both countries' space programs.

>russian flags on the moon
>0
>non american rovers on mars
>0

Id say we won

>>66504961

How well covered was Sputnik and the first man in space here?

Who cares for the Space Race we won the Moon

>>66508772
They weren't ahead by that much. Luna 2 and 3 were the only successful Soviet lunar probes in the dozen or something attempts pre-1966.

>>66508827
>How well covered was Sputnik and the first man in space here?

A ton. It threw a scare into the US that was so bad that it led Kennedy to challenge the Soviets on a race to the Moon one month after Gagarin.

It amazes, but we succeeded with Venus and Mars probes before we succeeded with a Ranger probe impacting the Moon.

>>66492192
>He didn't do his research
>The french played an amazing part in ww1

>>66508984

they didnt "lose" WW1, but they suffered incredible losses

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage

>>66494507
>confusing the Russian and French flags
Oh lord help me.

>>66509029
Because they were a major player, the US were 2% of allied casualties whereas France were more like 30%

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>>66492136
>that pic

t est

>>66505301
>How many times did your country send robots to explore Mars's surface?
More importantly, how many times has your Mars probe become a black smudge on Mars?
I'm looking at you European Union.

>>66511755
and Russia

And don't even get me started on sending probes to the outer planets.

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>>66492136
>euroniggers

>>66492192
Nah then won runner up for space race. 2nd country on the moon since USA got there. They planted the French flag in the exact same spot as we did. France's white flag still standing on the moon while USA's flag is no longer there so it's France who gets the last laugh.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-flags-moon-faded-white-2016-5

>>66495439
Honestly with what I know of airline mechs over here, it really doesn't surprise me. The Concord was way too good of a plane to be lumped into the same kind of knuckledraggers doing work on Boeings and Bombardiers and the like. At least if that's who was actually working on it.

I've gotten the impression that your maintainers are held to a lot more of a professional standard, whereas our mechs here are really just a step above car mechanics. Trust me, I've worked with some real fuckheads. It's depressing.

>>66505301
>All known recorded human culture

It has some greetings in different world languages, basic-ass coordinates to earth, some nature sounds, and like, a song or something.

>>66512060
You should read about the AA 191 disaster in 1979.

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>>66511787
>Russia

Modern Russia is a small, poor and irrelevant country. All the deep space exploration projects have been cancelled due to lack of investments. We can't compete with the USA, EU and even China.

>>66512222
at least you got quads

>>66512153
Yeah that's some shit too, was a case study for us back in my human factors class in my last year of school. You wonder how no single person stops and says "you know, maybe this isn't the best idea."

There's a reason I really never want to work commercial birds.

>>66512222
You're a pack mule for the ISS and the last time you did anything cool in space was the Vega probes in the 1980s.

>>66508880
Sort of Luna 1, but it failed to impact the Moon as intended, so a partial success.

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>>66492136

>>66512669
I remember the butthurt, that was a good thread.

>>66492136
The shuttle program was a mistake

>>66512860
>t. two stupid too launch a shuttle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

>>66512940
Nigger, anyway you see it, the space shuttle program was a big fat mistake, and considerably held NASA's budget for other major projects down. Rockets were, and still are, cheaper, more efficient and more reliable than shuttles.

>>66512402
>You're a pack mule for the ISS and the last time you did anything cool in space was the Vega probes in the 1980s.

Soviets did it.
Russia is incapable to repeat the achievements of the SU, not to mention outperform them.

>>66512860

No. Space shuttle was just ahead of its time.

>>66513181
>t. will never go to Mars
Have fun being trapped on this dying planet, João

The Shuttle was supposed to be a small, reusable space plane to be launched on a disposable rocket, but NASA and the DoD gradually tacked on more and more requirements so it became a ballooned-up monstrosity.

>>66513444
They couldn't just adapt Apollo to be a space station ferry ala Soyuz?

>>66513637
Apollo would have needed extensive modifications for that, especially that the service module engine was grossly overpowered for LEO flights.

>>66492136
>>66492192
why the fuck are you fighting? France is oldest and best ally

>Americans still think the moon landing was real

How retarded can you be?

Not even going to honor 66515397 with a reply, to be quite honest with you good people.

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>>66515409
indeed

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>why yes, I do believe that the moon landing was a hoax without the slightest hint of irony

>>66509156
>>66509156
I didn't confuse them.
But i'm assuming that's what he means when he implies that we lost the space race. The russians. Because the french have done fuck all with respect to space.

Ain't nobody won shit until Uranus has been probed.

Get to it.

>>66515434
But that's not a fedora.