Based on my research, I cannot find any credible evidence that NASA made the specific claim that "the United States beat the Soviets using 1960s computers."

Reasoning:

• No matching claim found in the database: The claims database contains no verified statements from NASA claiming that computers were the decisive factor in winning the space race¹²³.

• The "150-pound computer" quote is about humans, not machines: The quote often misattributed to NASA stating "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system" was actually a tongue-in-cheek statement from 1965 referring to humans as computational systems, not about electronic computers³⁴. This was originally said by physicist S. Fred Singer and Albert Scott Crossfield, not as an official NASA statement about beating the Soviets.

• Multiple factors contributed to the US victory: Historical records indicate the US won the space race due to a combination of factors: the powerful Saturn V rocket¹, superior systems management and organization⁴, greater funding ($25 billion vs. estimated Soviet half that amount)¹, the untimely death of Soviet chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966³, and the Soviet N-1 rocket's repeated failures¹ — not solely due to computer technology.

• Computers played a role but weren't the sole reason: While the Apollo Guidance Computer was innovative (being the first computer based on silicon integrated circuits)⁵, and the US had advanced computing capabilities, NASA never specifically claimed that computers were the reason for beating the Soviets.

The claim appears to be either a misquote, a fabricated statement, or a misinterpretation of the "150-pound computer" joke about human computers. NASA acknowledged computers as important tools, but never made such a simplistic claim about them being the decisive factor against the Soviet Union.

Overall validity: 5%

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