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Whatever happened to the space race?

- George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic

Further, one of the prime requirements of the mission was for space-saving, lightweight and power frugal electronics with which to drive instruments and communications, etc.
Although the transistor had already been discovered by Shockley and Brattain over at Bell labs, some twenty years before, progress with the new device had got practically nowhere.
The reason was that the biggest markets - for domestic radios, tv's, and the like - were still using valves (tubes), that were large, heavy and power hungry, but the industry saw no need in re-tooling, when profit was just as easily got with the old technology.
The greatest push the US electronics industry got was the space race: the government set the stage; now people were needed to play their part - and they did - some of the brightest and best from everywhere went on to obtain degrees in the sciences.
Practically overnight, a revolution occurred in the implementation of electronics - out went valves, in came the transistor, then the integrated circuit.
After the end of the old Apollo programme, these same scientists, engineers and technicians went into industry, creating the likes of Silicon Valley that made the US a world-class leader in electronics and micro-miniaturization.
These advances made possible (amongst other things) the pc - giving everyman the possibility of having his own 'personal computer'.
The plan was a stroke of genius by JFK.

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Beginning of the headline :In the wake of Sputnik I’s success on October 4, 1957, in which the USSR could stake claim to having built the first artificial earth satellite, a cosmic shift in perception took hold.Whatever advantages US society might have as measured by individual freedom, it came up short when stacked against Soviet science and technology. Soviet space superiority was on display 32 days later when Sputnik 2 launched with Laika, a dog found roaming the Moscow streets who died a few days after takeoff. T... Read More

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