Eli5: why was the US the first to make it to the moon despite the USSR being first in nearly everything else in the Space Race?

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Eli5: why was the US the first to make it to the moon despite the USSR being first in nearly everything else in the Space Race?

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An interesting historical irony is that the Soviet space program shifted to compartmentalized labs who were competing with one another while the US program was collaborative and centralized.

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