Historically, reliability was often associated with which nation's engineering for crewed access to space?

Answer

Soviet/Russian engineering

Before the emergence of modern private spaceflight providers, reliability benchmarks, particularly for long-serving crewed access platforms, were often linked to the Soyuz family developed through Soviet/Russian engineering efforts.

Historically, reliability was often associated with which nation's engineering for crewed access to space?
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