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Of all goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to effect a result of, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program of the 1950s and 1960s. Due to Russian creativity and technology, but also anticipated to incredible drive to modernize and compete with the United States for world ability, Russia was finally and triumphantly modernized in the eye of her own people and the world. Neil deGrasse Tyson identified the Soviet legacy in space in his Space Chronicles, citing the Soviets' "important strategy[s] of space achievements: first spacewalk, longest spacewalk, first woman in space, first docking in space, first space station, longest time logged in space." Actually, the Soviet Union spent a lot of the 1950s going out of the United States in its particles (and rocket energy). Chief executive Eisenhower and other Americans who could view Soviet rockets in the sky were justifiably concerned that Soviet satellites in orbit could soon be spying to them, or, even worse, falling nuclear bombs to them. Dovetailing off their success growing intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Soviets were the first to make enormous advancements in real space exploration, and on the night time of October 4, 1957, the Soviets ready to launch "Subject D" atop one of its R-7 rockets.
