After the Soviet Union first completed Gagarin's space flight in 1961, Khrushchev confidently announced that the Soviet Union's space technology was at the forefront of the world.

China did not insist on competing for this specific honor. On November 11, 1961, China's new round of launches first solved the practical verification of accompanying small satellite signal transmission technology.

On December 8, 1961, China's first unmanned space capsule of the Tiangong series was successfully launched.

On May 1, 1962, China's Tiangong-2 unmanned space capsule was successfully launched.

On October 1, 1962, China's Tiangong-3 unmanned space capsule was successfully launched. And on October 5, the unmanned docking with the No. 2 capsule was broadcast live.

On November 11, 1963, China's Tiangong-4 unmanned space capsule was successfully launched.

On March 3, 1964, Chinese astronauts carried out a manned flight aboard the Dongfeng-6 spacecraft.

On May 1, 1964, China's Tiangong-5 unmanned space capsule was successfully launched. It automatically docked with the No. 4 capsule to form the Tiangong Space Station.

On October 1, 1964, Chinese astronauts entered the Tiangong Space Station. After the live broadcast of the whole process, Chinese astronauts broadcast a space lesson live from the space station via satellite relay.

On November 11, 1964, China's lunar exploration satellite Chang'e-1 was successfully launched and achieved circumlunar flight.

Although China, the US, and the Soviet Union seemed to be advancing side by side in the moon landing program, the US and the Soviet Union could only tell the public what they did and whether they succeeded through TV announcers. China used its all-around advantages to make every step of the space program clearly visible to the whole world. Especially that space lesson, which used an unprecedentedly high-end, grand, and classy mode to instantly make such a mysterious thing as space flight become accessible to every ordinary person in front of the TV set.

Regardless of how many crazy things the US and the Soviet Union came up with, at least the more than two billion viewers in front of the TV sets believed that China's technology was more powerful than that of the US and the Soviet Union. And these undoubtedly gave China an unprecedented advantage.