Bezkoshtovnya wrote:I highly doubt that it would have remotely been comparable. It would be a very rudimentary system full of issues. The technology was not there.
That is like saying if somebody invented a video game console in the 40s instead of the 70s it would automatically be comparable to the newest generation of consoles.
Probably not, but the Soviet Union was considerably more able to commit resources to whatever it set it mind to. The United States played catch up in the space race - and again, inspite of the Soviet Union starting from a lower point in development and recovering from WW2. The United States used the Soviet space station.