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>Whatever happened to the space race?  - George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic
Only a narrow minded and myopic individual would view the US Space Program and Project Apollo as a waste. Many technical innovations, in material science, in inertial navigation, in digital electronics (to name a few) were later transferred to the commercial sector, enabling many new products with higher efficiencies and lower cost. This ultimately transformed many existing markets and created entirely new ones.

Money invested into the US Space Program paid much higher dividends than money invested in Vietnam, or money invested to keep poor people dependent on the government.


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Début de l'article :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... Lire la suite
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