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Meanwhile in mirror universe:
>US launches the first satellite
>USSR achieves parity short afterwards
>USSR announces going to Moon, manages to get N-1 going with only minor issues
>Saturn keeps blowing up because they never been able to fix instability or whatever
>Apollo cancelled after technical issues, less funding allocated (say, US invaded Cuba because USSR didn't put missiles there or whatever) and Apollo 1 roasting astronauts alive being the last straw
>USSR lands on the Moon on LM-1"Oryol"
>US focuses on space stations to gain experience for planetary fly-by and eventually landing to one up Soviets
>builds World and Peace modular stations
>USSR puts all their money on developing Chelnok spaceplane, get it working but it ends up actually under-delivering on what they hoped for
>their big station, NeLa (short for Nebesnaya Laboratoriya) de-orbits when Chelnok is delayed
>US starts its own spaceplane (under codename Stormrider) to maintain parity after USAF insists they could be used as bombers
>USSR goes bankrupt and dissolves because communism sucks ass even in bizarro universe
>planetary fly-by plans cancelled/postponed indefinitely
>ISS still gets build by American Shuttles, serviced by Russian Baseduzes