Wired magazine is either dumb enough, hubristic enough, or a bit of both to claim that, besides Sputnik, the Russians have always played catch-up in space.
Right, right. Yuri Gagarin played catch-up to Scott Carpenter and John Glenn. Laika played catch-up to Ham. The Luna probes found Rangers or others already on the moon.
Forgot about all of that, Wired. Thanks for correcting me.
Oh, and even in other cases, the Russians didn't just copy us. Mir went far beyond Skylab.
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