United States achievements in space:
- Human walking on the moon with a flag
USSR Achievements in space:
- First satellite in orbit
- First living creature in orbit
- First man in space and in orbit
- First woman in space
- First moon impact probe
- First pictures of the dark side of the moon
- First orbital rendezvous
- First spaceflight with multiple crew
- First spacewalk
- First robotic moon landing
- First moon rover
- First Mars probe
- First Venus probe
- First Venus landing, only pictures ever taken on the Venusian surface
- First space station (they launched seven more while the US only launched one)
- First multi-modular space station (MIR)
- First autonomous space shuttle launch, orbit, and landing (Buran)
- Designed launch vehicles and spacecraft and spacecraft so reliable that they are still used today (Soyuz, Proton)
