The Soviets have been winning in everything concerning the space race up until the American Moon landing in 1969. They beat the Americans with the first manned spaceflight, the first woman in space (and for almost twenty more years the only one), the first multicraft flight, and finally — the first group flight. They left Americans on the scorched ground, even if sometimes just by weeks or even days. And in the course of racing the hideous imperialist capitalist to the Silver Globe they achieved one more outstanding success — the first orbital docking between two manned spaceships and a successful orbital crew transfer which let to the launch of world's first-ever orbital station Salyut 1 and taking back the lead in 1971.