I personally am not sure about this. Peasants regularly traveled to cities to sell produce on their own in the 70s and an important part of Soviet housing in the 80s were cooperatives and developers who built housing for sale on the market. Soviets had plenty of entrepreneurial spirit, it just...
There's The Loud Blast That Tears The Skies for the first part, at least there: https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/the-loud-blast-that-tears-the-skies
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-loud-blast-that-tears-the-skies.354936/
Democratic presidential nominee Senator John F Kennedy greets female Muslim hijab wearing supporters at a campaign rally, 1960.
From: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/29/jfk-at-100-215204
From Pluto on the Spacecord Discord server:
"Depending on the technology it could take some time to develop a understanding of material design as many of the main rocketry components used a refined aluminium, this is the same with the fuel as during that time cryogenics would be very difficult...